Upload Problems- Not responding

[redcom001]

After great labor with the workaround involving the FTDI driver debacle, I got the FTDI breakout board suggested by ND to upload programs to the hackvision. I eventually found the last stable driver distribution which didn’t brick the board, and now it (the FTDI board at least) registers as a USB serial port on my device manager. Now, I get an error while uploading which says:

avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

And the upload fails, leaving the stock Space Invaders/Pong combo on the machine.

I’m using the latest Arduino IDE, TVout library. etc on a windows 8 64bit machine. Is anyone else having this problem? I’ve been really looking forward to messing around with this thing and I don’t really want my money to have gone to waste.

[Michael]

What setting are you using for the board in the Arduino IDE?
Tools-> Board should be set to Uno.

I don’t know when you bought your kit so if Uno doesn’t work, try Duemilanove.

I assure you that Hackvision is programmable using a USB to serial adapter.

[redcom001]

I bought the kit a little over 2 weeks ago (v1), and I tried setting the board on both Uno and Duemilanove. Should the adapter register on the device manager as a USB serial adapter?

[Michael]

Yes, the usb to serial adapter should be visible on the Tools-> serial port menu. The error you are getting indicates that maybe you don’t have the right serial port selected.

[redcom001]

There is only one serial port that it automatically registers under and I still get the same no response error. I just tried a loopback test which was successful but the hackvision itself still won’t respond while uploading.

[Michael]

Sounds like the device does work, but the programming is not working. There must be a soldering problem with the connector, or the 10K resistor, or the small cap next to the 10K resistor. I’d check the connections on those.

[redcom001]

I just resoldered the joints on all the components you listed. Before and after, while connected w/ the FTDI adapter, the board has power and the preloaded software comes up on my TV. I already reconfigured the adapter’s hardware ID and ran another loopback test which was successful, but there is still no response while uploading.

EDIT: Fixed! I had the adapter backwards from the beginning.

[Michael]

Glad you are up and running!

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