Hrmm, that is an Atmega168, which is -really- limited in terms of flash and RAM. I think if you de-soldered the 168 and put on the 328, you should be fine (not sure you want to do that, though). Why not grab one of these instead: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11113, you have a much better chance of that working, plus it's cheaper. You'll have to solder on your own legs, of course.

I am pretty sure that an FTDI dongle wouldn't be the issue, so one of those other bare-bones Arduino types would probably work fine.

- Xander

Just make sure the ATMega is a 328 and not something smaller.

The Arduino Duemilanove ("2009") is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega168 (datasheet) or ATmega328 (datasheet).

Firmware is too big to run on a 168 - it clocks in at about 21kb. Minimum requirements of a 328 to run, unfortunately.

ROBOTC will run on a Diecimilaboard (which used to have a 168) with a replacement 328 chip with the Arduino bootloader burned on it - some places sell these with the upgrade: http://www.adafruit.com/products/123