Unfortunately the 328-pu and 328p-pu are not the the same. I had to fiddle a bit to get this right and once it worked I ran straight into the next problem…Īvrdude dislikes your lovely 328-PU chips and says “avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature.” or “avrdude: Expected signature for ATMEGA328P is 1E 95 0F” You can also get other hex numbers like resp=0x15 and resp=0xf0Īdd either a 120 Ohm resistor (didn’t work for me) or a 10uF Capacitor (worked like a charm) between the Reset and 5V Pin: The next problem I bumped into was that when I selected Tools -> Burn Bootloader, avrdude couldn’t communicate with my board.

You may also need to add the line below after the other text you pasted as it’s missing in the downloadable example file:Īfter this, the ArduinoISP example compiled fine and uploaded to the Duemilanove board that I’m using for burning the bootloader. On OSX: right click the Arduino app and browse Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/arduino/boards.txt. “pins_arduino.h: No such file or directory”Ĭopy the contents from the downloaded boards.txt in your src/hardware folder to the boards.txt in App folder instead. To use the Minimal Circuit setup (without the crystal/capacitors) you’ll try to follow the instructions listed only to get the first problem.

I had a bunch of problems that I eventually solved, so am posting the results for others to find. Today I tried this tutorial and it’s very much the same, but explains an option to not use a crystal. I gave up on the shield and I also tried this the official ArduinoISP tutorial to no vain. I have a Duemilanove 328 but the didn’t work either.

By browsing the forums I realized that while it can be used to BURN an UNO, it can’t be used with an UNO. That would be much too easy! The Adafruit shield probably works, but since there’s no real listing of what hardware it’s actually compatible/tested with it’s sort of useless. It all seems so easy, doesn’t it? You just buy this shield from Adafruit and follow the tutorial. The basic chip is just a microcontroller, but with the right bootloader, you can load your Arduino-based programs onto it. ISP is short for In-System Programmer and is one of several ways to turn a blank Atmel chip into an Arduino.

Avrdude get device