Recent content by Jason Allen

Thanks guys, hooked up my multimeter and was able to see which direction wasn't working, re-soldered it back together and we're good now. Everything seems to be working...very cool. Now to start on the enclosure!

Thanks John for doing those tests. I'm soldering it back up right now and I'll see what I get.

Does the orientation of the button matter when inserted into the button board? If so, how can I identify the orientation on the button?

Thanks John! Got the probe hooked up and now I'm reading a temp and showing fan speed. My button doesn't seem to be doing anything though. I'll have to do some forum searches. Very cool stuff.

Sweet! Getting closer. Just uploaded the sketch and I get "No Pit Probe" which makes sense because I don't have a pit probe hooked up!

ok, thanks for all the replies... Major brain-fart on my side. As I'm mowing the lawn tonight I realized what my problem is, or at least the main problem. When I got my FTDI cable and hooked it up, I uploaded a simple sketch to verify everything worked and it did. It was late and I didn't...

How do I check the encoding? At one point in messing with the baud rate, I as able to see "3", "3", "3".... that seemed weird too. I believe the 5v regulator is as I can measure 5v between pin 1 and pin 2 of the LCD output header.

Should I see a voltage when placing the multimeter between pin 15 and pin 16 on the LCD output header? When I go from pin 15 to Q2 I see 5v at 2 of the 3 pins, but not on the 3rd. The 3rd pin of Q2 is what seems to trace to pin 16 of the LCD output header. I can also see 5v between pin 15 and...

Yep, Atmega was flashed and I was upload the schematic. At least within the Arduino IDE it gave me no errors and transferred data. No flash, LED does nothing. I just get garbled output from the serial output via FTDI. I believe one problem is related to the LCD getting backlight power. I...

ok, thought I would start a new thread that could helpfully help others as I'm helped. I've finished nearly all of my PCB work, my button board is soldered, power hooked up, etc. The remaining work to be done is: 1) Hook up probe 2) Hook up fan I've flashed optiloader and HeaterMeter code...

Thanks Bryan. Just ordered it from Amazon. I LOVE prime! Here is the Amazon item in case future people are interested. Amazon FTD Basic Breakout Unfortunately I already soldered my chip into the HeaterMeter...I started to try and desolder the ATMega and realized that was going to ruin my...

For those of you that have them...where did you find them? Any local stores? Looking for one to program my HeaterMeter as I'm doing a stand alone version without the router. Or is there another way I should be thinking about loading/updating the HeaterMeter code on the ATMega? Thanks in...

Found the 7805 at RadioShack, now that's installed... Also, I think I was able to flash the bootloader using optiLoader and the ICSP Header. No errors were given when I monitored the serial port... Now, to get HeaterMeter loaded.

Thanks Bryan. Although I'm only doing the HeaterMeter for starters, I hadn't planned on doing the full LinkMeter. Oh...good heads up Dave. I'll try RadioShack. That would save me a lot of time.

Thanks for all the great replies. I thought my post might sit "outside" the main thread and get missed, but clearly it wasn't. 1) Well, I guess I should have read more about the flashing portion :( I already installed my ATMega without the bootloader...details...details. I'll have to...