Rainbowduino V2.0 with FTDI Friend Chip

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#1

Hi,

I’m trying to get my LED 8x8 Matrix working with a Rainbowduino V2.0 that is connected to a FTDI Friend by adafruit. I’ve put the wires the following way:

Rainbowduino - FTDI
RX - TX
TX - RX
VCC - VCC
DTR - RTS
GND - GND

I’ve selected Arduino Duemilanove w/ AT Mega 328.

I’ve downloaded the Rainbowduino library right here:
seeedstudio.com/wiki/images/ … ino1.0.zip

When I try to upload a simple sketch, for example shapes, the FTDI blinks correctly showing that it is uploading but I get nothing in the LED matrix. And my LED matrix is working because I test it in other board.

Is there a different library only for Rainbowduino v2.0? Sketches from rainbowduino v3.0 won’t work with my v2.0? Am missing any connection?

Thanks!

#2

bump

It looks like Rainbowduino V2 is not compatible with the library available in the wiki. It’s only for V3.0. I spent good 3 hours trying to figure out why!
Can someone make the old version of the library available?

#3

bump! grr!