Sometimes all I have to work with is spaghetti. On the left is the battery. On the right, coming from the breadboard is 5V (which is actually doing nothing at the moment because the battery’s fully charged already.) In the middle are the control module and power module married together and the USB cable connected for programming. Having a trigger happy button that will likely need to get replaced, and it can’t read the SD card. But hey, figured out (and solved) why it wasn’t enumerating. Small progress! Just the simple fact that the power module is doing I’m expecting it to do is a big achievement! From being able to charge from USB or DC_IN, boost the battery to 5V for the controller, and when turned off, it also shuts off the USB controller on the AVR, which is an additional piece of circuitry I added. I’m a happy camper right now.
Also, tonight I love this project more than yesterday. Yesterday it really pissed me off. 
I’ll deal with the SD issue tomorrow. Too tired from working with 6th grade kids these past two weeks.
love the work!! I too have been having varied on/off days crunching my project together. yesterday was an on day and progress was made! hurray