Hi I'm new to 3D printing and the reprap world but not to cnc and arduino. I started assembling the motors and endstops for my prusa this weekend and wanted to test them with my RAMPS 1.4 board. This is a pre-built board from ultimachine and has sprinter pre-loaded.
I connected 1 motor to the board just to test with and tried to connect to the board with pronterface. I hit the connect button the port set to the only available port in the drop down and the "connect...." just sat there.
I then opened Arduino 1.0.2 and tried to upload the "TEST" firmware from the wiki and received this message:
Im at a loss now. Only one LED lights on the RAMPS board, the one next to the screw terminals at the top left. Ive tried this in both ubuntu and Windows 7 for both scenarios. HELP
I connected 1 motor to the board just to test with and tried to connect to the board with pronterface. I hit the connect button the port set to the only available port in the drop down and the "connect...." just sat there.
I then opened Arduino 1.0.2 and tried to upload the "TEST" firmware from the wiki and received this message:
Binary sketch size: 7,766 bytes (of a 258,048 byte maximum) avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer
Im at a loss now. Only one LED lights on the RAMPS board, the one next to the screw terminals at the top left. Ive tried this in both ubuntu and Windows 7 for both scenarios. HELP