I have been using the Arduino Pro Mini and the Arduino Lilypad recently with an external programmer. As I normally use a generic USB programmer and need to connect each pin manually I am continually looking up what needs to be connected where. This is a table of connections to make this easer.
Name | Arduino Lilypad |
Arduino Pro Mini |
FTDI Cable | FTDI Cable Colours |
Budget Adapter |
Budget Cable Colours |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ground | B | GND | GND | Black | n/c | n/c |
Ground | – | GND | CTS | Brown | GND | Black |
VCC | – | VCC | VCC | Red | VCC | Red |
Receive | – | RXI | TXD | Orange | TXD | Green |
Transmit | – | TXO | RXD | Yellow | RXD | White |
Reset | G | Reset | RTS | Green | n/c | n/c |