Am going over to a friends house later today to borrow his HD camera so I can post pics but to get started and hopefully get a Idea...
Put my 1st ETD together last night - simpile straightforward procedure - nothing hard - good assembly manual etc (thanks for those) and then got the the part about flashing the pic.
Pulled up Pickit3, set the device (last one on the device list) loaded the firmware and hit write - lights on the programmer seem to flash as normal as with all the other pics I have done in the past, but no matter what function - read/write/verify/erase/black check etc I get "operation failed." back from the pickit3 software.
Device selected: PIC32MX795F512L, using the pixelnet firmware listed in the wiki last night
funny thing i noticed, when i load the firmware from the downloaded file, the checksum is always 0000, i thought i remembered when load the firmware like for the SSC, once i loaded the firmware the checksum would update with what was loaded in memory - but i am not sure....
So is there anything obvious to look for am currently reflowing all the solder joints etc
Thanks
Myk