You beat me to the end.
My 555 is working, but not very precisely. While its accurate, without a scope, I'm having trouble zeroing in on trustworthy streams.
So, let me get this straight, you have a basic ATMEGA168 chip, that you loaded using your Freeduino board, or the load cable, then placed that code loaded chip to your solderless breadboard with the bare bones components for a functioning chip. You then power it from the same place as the MPGuino and tap its outputs.
I may just have to break down and buy some more Freeduinos to catch up.
My soldering iron is heating up so I can migrate my LCD and input interfacing components to a proto shield. I'm trying to make mine look less like a spaghetti ball on the bench.