Getting the Arduino Pro Mini 328 – 5V/16MHz to work with the Arduino Serial USB Board.

One of our customers was having problems getting his sketches uploaded to his new Arduino Pro Mini 328 using the Arduino Serial USB Board.
According to info found on the Arduino website it tells you to hit the Reset button on the board just before pressing the Upload Sketch button in the IDE.
Now I don’t know about you but this worked for me about 1% of the time and was very frustrating.
OK so let’s get the Serial USB Board to Reset the Arduino Pro Mini for us by wiring the RTS pin of the Serial board to the Reset pin on the Pro Mini.

This works nicely everytime you want to do an upload so here is a video of our setup……