Hello,
I've just received my new Moteinos. One with USB, other not. I have two FTDI's but I'm not sure if they will work and I don't want to fry my Moteino. If I realised I would have ordered an FTDI from LowPowerLab...but now it's too late. I mean, I'm from Spain and the shipping costs (and waiting 12 days) don't pay off... at least for just an FTDI unit. Perhaps some time in the future if I want more Moteinos...
Now my question:
Is it possible to use an Arduino UNO board (without the 328P on it) to program the Moteino?
What would be the right connections?
ARDUINO UNO MOTEINO
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3.3V 3.3 V ??? Don't know if 5V - VCC also will work
GND GND
RX RX
TX TX
RESET RESET
BTW: I'm using this procedure to program a "bareduino" (a bare 328P with a 16 Mhz xtal and a few caps and resistors).
Thanks a lot.
Good question.
I've used this setup to succesfully program the bootloader on an arduino mini: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP
Instead of uploading the ArduinoISP sketch, I assume it should be possible to program another sketch?
If your UNO acts as a serial programmer then it should be fine. Except the Moteino is 3.3v and UNO is 5v so I would put a divider on the line going INTO the Moteino.
Otherwise make sure your FTDI is 5V power and 3.3v data and you should be OK.