Ardweeny adventures, part two
I have a working Ardweeny!
The Solarbotics replacement kit arrived this afternoon. I assembled it as before, with a few differences. The male programming headers were put in with the proper orientation. And I decided to test the Ardweeny without soldering the chip in at first — the pressure of the outer pins holds it pretty well.
At first, this looked like a repeat problem; no response when I plugged the Ardweeny into USB power and uploading the sketch failed with the same error. But after I removed the anti-static foam from the chip pins it worked just fine. I know…obvious…I’m new at this.
The Ardweeny does ship with the Blink program burned in. The moment I attached the USB, the LED started blinking.
My old Ardweeny chip, however, is definitely fried. Very glad I didn’t try to rebuild it!