Well, I bought two 15 transistor packs from radioshack and ohmed them all out. I got one working transistor out of both packs! I soldered it to the board and I still get the same thing: one line of black blocks at the top and 4.12v while it's plugged in the computer. When I shut the computer off it goes up to 4.24v
I'm getting kind of frustrated as I'd like to have it working by the 24th for my roadtrip and I'm clueless as to what to do. Do I need to reload the bootloader (I have NO idea how to do that)? If so, can I do that through the usb and the arduino program? If so, how? If not through the usb then what?