Sanguino Testing advice

Hi all, Sorry for such basic questions. I have BASIC electronics / microcontroller experience. I've recently built some of my repstrap electronics and am getting ready to start integrating it. I've completed a Sanguino, with the breakout board. After carefully checking it for solder bridges and opens, I took the plunge, plugging it into my USB (Mac OSX). The power light was steady and it blinked like the bootloader was ready for uploads. Great so far. Using Arduino 12, I located the device and attempted to upload a couple test sketches. Blinking rate changed, which appeared to be serial I/O. Again, good. The software provided a report that xxx bytes were uploaded and appeared to correctly read the available bytes. The red light went off, APPEARING to have received the sketch.

My question is how can I safely start testing/exercising the Sanguino, without risking burning it, or my computer, out. I'm looking for serial communications, maybe some LED pinout advice, etc. I could start jumping in, but I'd rather not fry anything. Any thoughts.

TIA,

Randy

Start with a simple LED test, on any pin, and go from there. Here's an Arduino page about that, the Sanguino should be pretty similar:

[www.ladyada.net]

That'll confirm that you've got the toolchain up and running. After that, try messing with your temperature sensor on an analog pin (maybe print the temp to the serial port), and even some stepper driver boards if you're feeling brave. You can run them without steppers and just check that the lights flash when they're supposed to.

Good luck! Think I'll put together my Sanguino tonight.

Wade

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2009 10:14PM by Wade Bortz.