One step closer
Here is the gimbal board blinking.
What it took was a bit of work to sort a driver for a USBtinyISP programmer.
Then some fidgeting to get the programmer header to stay in place.
You can actually crash the programmer it turns out by shorting pins – if the header is not seated properly or it moves.
Otherwise, if everything is in place it takes literally a second to burn the bootloader onto the board.
I set the board up as an Uno in the IDE, opened up blink example and uploaded.
Next is to strip out the code from drive one of the 3 motor ports to get a motor rotating for the LIDAR.