Hi, I try to upload the blink example to my brand new Arduino Mini-04, but to no avail. Avrdude says 'invalid device signature' and that the option -F should be used. How can you set that option? I'm pretty sure the communication itself is OK, because I use the verbose output during upload and I…

upload blink sketch to Arduino-Mini (04) unsuccesfull/invalid device signature

mellis February 29, 2012, 10:29pm 4

In Arduino 1.0, try changing:

mini328.upload.protocol=stk500

to:

mini328.upload.protocol=arduino

in the boards.txt file. Does that fix the problem?

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