serious newbie. was able to solder and assemble the minipov3 kit pefectly and when tested, the leds light up one by one in sequence.
i am using a PC, have the miniPOV3 kit,direct to serial programming.
i have been able to follow directions on downloading winavr. i believe it is installed properly. my problem is all other directions i seem to find always support serial to usb.
pls. see attached file. when i click on "zip of example source code" it takes me to a site that talks about usb/serial stuff. where is direct serial instructions.
would appreciate any help. i thought the problem i would have would start with programming a new message (which might still happen
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ok, so after doing some research, i think i had something going. i downloaded the firmware minipov3.zip and extracted that to c:\minipov3
i then used minipov.exe (by magicsoft). after i hit compile, bunch of things happened and now my minipov3 won't even light up. i can't even explain what happened because it occured so fast. please help. don't want to have wasted money on something that now won't work. supposed to be a science project and we don't have the budget to buy another one.
i then used minipov.exe (by magicsoft). after i hit compile, bunch of things happened and now my minipov3 won't even light up. i can't even explain what happened because it occured so fast. please help. don't want to have wasted money on something that now won't work. supposed to be a science project and we don't have the budget to buy another one.
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Re: in over my head
You will need to give us a bit more detail than that. What was displayed in the command window after your compile? Were there any error messages?bunch of things happened and now my minipov3 won't even light up
You should also post some pictures of the front & back of your board so we can look for any assembly problems.
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