[Axaday]

I took a good close look at the thing and removed some cat hairs with tweezers and trimmed some leads shorter and plugged it in again and the power LED came on. It still wouldn't run the blink program, though. Heartened, I trimmed some more leads and I looked for places where a bit of stuff looked like it was in a circuit pathway and tried to carefully knocked that stuff off with the tweezers. Now the power LED doesn't work again. Now and then it lights for a second as I'm plugging the USB into it, but not for long. The loader still thinks it works, but it doesn't.

At this point have I ruined the thing? And if I went and bought a complete iDuino like I should've to start with would I be wasting my time because of how much more soldering there is to go and me not knowing what I'm doing?

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I just found the edit post feature. Thought we didn't have it here.

I managed to get the power LED back and I did it by bending it, which confirms that my contacts aren't all as good as I thought they were. But I don't have time to work on it anymore tonight. Thank you to those that have helped.

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Well, I decided it wouldn't take THAT much time and I wouldn't sleep well wondering. So I did what dcb said. I just let the iron warm up and then touched every solder point. I found a few spots that didn't really seem to have that much solder on second inspection and I moved some around until I was better satisfied and then I plugged it into the computer again. For a second the red LED flickered a bit and then it started blinking one second on and off. If that program works, should I assume the other will can push on forward?