When I tried installing the software initially, I had some problems getting the drivers to work.. After a while fiddling with that I managed to create a successful connection with the arduino.. I had defined the serial port, and opened the initial example, "Blinking LED" to see if I could get the basic's from the equipment. I tried time after time to upload the example code to the Arduino, but I had no response, except for error messages, that meant nothing to me!!
By this point I was fiddling with it for at least 3 hour's and still could not figure out why it was not working, Maybe the bootloader was not installed? I tried all kinds of things... Anyway, It turns out in the end, after endless searching and reading on the Arduino.cc site that I had not defined the micro-controller itself. I was trying to upload to a model 'Atmega168' micro-controller, When in fact my Arduino NG uses the 'Atmega8'... A Simple error, that has cost me valuable time. However, When That LED finally started blinking, and I was able to determine factors such as the length of time between flash's etc, I was so excited..! Amazing how something so small can encourage you to see the positives of such task's!
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