[chbot] Sanguino Problems

[Gary T]

Hello everyone,
Just to follow up, I got a USB to serial programmer from Tim Carr 
from www.mindkits.co.nz, and 1 of 2 of my Sanguino boards have 
successfully programmed.
The serial programmer he has is identical to the one sold by SparkFun

Thanks everyone for your help
:D

Gary T

At 08:49 08/07/2009, you wrote:
>Message: 2
>Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:47:40 +1200
>From: Richard Jones <rjtp at ihug.co.nz>
>Subject: [chbot] Sanguino Problems
>To: Christchurch Robotics <chchrobotics at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
>Message-ID: <f4ef85ee2c9a150fefd8a117b511f75e at vodafone.co.nz>
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>
>On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:10:54 +1200, Gary T <grogyan at woosh.co.nz> wrote:
> > Well i've done open heart surgery on the Prop Plug, and with the
> > switch now attached, is selectable between,
> > Programming BasicX and ZBasic
> > Programming Basic Stamp and Arduino(s) in default mode
> >
> > My BasicX programs ok, still no luck with the Sanguino
>
>Does the ATMega in the Sanguino have its boot loader installed?
>If so is the baud rate setting correct?
>You should be able to run the Sanguino with the reset jumper removed then
>you only need to get tx/rx the right way round and set the baud rate
>appropriately.
>You could try attaching a terminal program in your pc like screen on the
>mac, picoterm/minicom on linux or putty in windows. The you can vary the
>baud rate and watch for prompts from the Sanguino. The CPU tx and rx pins
>should relax to logic 1 (+5V?) when the is no data and both lines are
>correctly connected.
>
>Have you done basic fault finding on the Sanguino like checking that 0v and
>power are getting to the cpu pins and that the oscillator is running at the
>correct frequency?
>
>Richard