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Hello. I am new to the group and an am an amateur in the electronics field.
I am looking forward to learning and participating.

That having been said, I am trying to write code to an Atmega chip with the
Arduino bootloader I've done this before with similar chips with different
bootloaders without problem but I cannot seem to get it going on the arduino
chip. Anyway, long story short, I used this video (
http://www.youtube.com/user/Halo2maniaccc#p/u/9/VY0kiJNI5oE ) for direction.
Here is my board ( http://centrasupport.com/electronics/Arduino.png ) I am
using a different 16mhz crystal oscillator and, when I took this photo, was
using a switch instead of a button for reset. I am now using a button. I get
a blip in the blink pattern when I try to upload new code. But, at the end
of all I always end up with the following:

Binary sketch size: 1018 bytes (of a 32256 byte maximum)
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? I am also not opposed to building
another board if someone has a better setup. The main requirement is that
it's for the arduino bootloader.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

- Matt


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