avrispmkii not working?

For Adafruit customers who seek help with microcontrollers

Moderators: adafruit_support_bill, adafruit

avrispmkii not working?

Postby uhclem » Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:58 pm

If you are used to the usbtiny programmer and have a new AVRISPMKII don't forget this important part:

You must connect Vcc and GND on the ISP header! You may think "I know my avrispmkii does not supply power, so I will power my chip elsewhere". Not good enough!

I went nuts for almost an hour wondering why I kept getting initialization errors (rc=-1) when everything looked hooked up right. It was trying to tell me, though; red LED means "no target power". Duh!

Hopefully the search engines will pick this up and save others some grief.
uhclem
 
Posts: 26
Joined: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:03 pm

Return to Microcontrollers

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests

Stuff to buy from the Adafruit store and links to product documentation!


New Products [102]

Raspberry Pi[80]
 
FLORA[23]
 
Bunnie Studios[9]
 
FPGA[1]
 
mbed[11]
Arduino[60]
 
NETduino[14]
 
BeagleBone[24]
 
Android[6]
 
XBee[10]
More Dev Boards[30]


 
BoArduino[8]
 
SpokePOV[4]
 
TV-B-Gone[4]
 
MiniPOV[3]
 
SIM reader[3]
 
Microtouch[5]
 
Clocks & Watches[18]
 
Drawdio[4]
 
Brain Machine[1]
 
Game of Life[2]
 
MintyBoost[2]
More DIY Kits[16]


 
MaKey MaKey[3]
 
Tweet-a-Watt[5]
 
Young Engineers[33]
 
Discover Electronics[2]
 
Snap Circuits[4]
 
littleBits[3]
 
Project packs[8]


 
Breakout Boards[33]
LCDs & Displays[48]
Components & Parts[69]
Batteries & Power[49]
EL Wire/Tape/Panel[52]
LEDs[109]
 
Wireless[14]
Cables[60]
 
Lasers[6]
Sensors/Parts[145]
 
Enclosures/Cases[11]
 
Solar[11]
 
RFID / NFC[13]
Prototyping[70]
 
iDevices[13]
Tools[71]
 
Wearables[39]
 
CNC[37]
 
Robotics[29]
 
3D printing[1]
 
Materials[24]


 
Stickers[41]
 
Skill badges[55]
 
Books[25]
 
Circuit Playground[7]
 
Gift Certificates[4]