So I ordered the some kits from seeedstudio because they had other items I wanted and cheap.

The USnooBies arrived soon after in kit form like expected and did not take long to assemble.

but after assembling that is when all the fun starts. What I did not know is that the USnooBie requires a driver to be installed to use, but the catch is that I use Windows7 64bit and that you can not install unsigned drivers like the one I needed to install. Well there are hacks for this but some how in the process I was able to get the signing for all of the driver installed invalidated. Windows is not really that useful when it will not load any drivers (Like Network, USB or storage).

I few hours later I came up with a workaround to get my system up (kinda) and loaded up Arduino 22. The USnoobie is now detected as a USBasp device and Arduino configured to match. I loaded Blinky and changed the LED pin settings to match and uploaded. 
avrdude: error: usbasp_transmit: usb_control_msg: sending control message failed, win error: A device attached to the system is not functioning.

 

Hmmm where to now, I know, swap the the MPU, re-solder all points and triple check all bits. Still same errors. 

Right time for more Googling, forums and emails, still not working.

But I did find comments like "V-USB and Arduino's IDE just don't mix well."  and "you can't use the serial monitor without connecting a serial port or a serial port to USB converter."

All is not lost yet, I don't give up that easily 

But maybe I will stick to MPU's with better USB support like the Teensy and pay that little extra and wait that little longer for shipping.

All was not lost, Frank returned my email.
"That error is actually expected, what happens is that, after the

It turned out that it was working. Because I was getting the error and didn't think it was uploading I wasn't moving on. Now the only thing let is serial support. I have found a software solution (vusb-for-arduino) that might work but I think I might just make a cheap USB to TTL serial adapter from a cheap USB to Serial adapter.