<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I had eric bring me 2 tubes of processors and will be returning them next week to surplus gizmos with the bootloaders burned.<div><br></div><div>Don.</div><div><div><div><br></div><div>On Jun 6, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Scott Dixon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I got a couple of Dorkboard kits from Surplus Gizmos a couple of weeks ago and the basic problem is that they hadn't programmed the bootloader into the 168 chips that they are selling. According to Don, they said they would do it but apparently haven't. Probably the simplest fix is to drop by the DorkbotPDX meeting on Monday evening and ask Don to put the bootloader on your chip. That is what I did at the last meeting.<br>After the bootloader is put on the chip, then the Arduino software can be used as an IDE to create C/C++ programs and download them via the 5 pin header with the appropriate USB to TTL serial adapter (I use the Benito that Don makes and gives out at the periodic Arduino Cult inductions).<br>Scott<br>On Jun 6, 2009, at 9:33 AM, dave madden wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Following up my own post, I've been reading through the ATmega168 manual<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and internet info. I don't see how you'd program through the 5-pin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">header, unless you already had a bootloader programmed in. AFAICT, you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">could program through DebugWire if you had the spec (and you can't get<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it) and if you had somehow changed some fuses to enable DebugWire. But<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the only way I can see to initialize a brand new device is through SPI<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(or a high-voltage, parallel programmer). Is that correct? Do you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">flash new Dorkboards through PB3-PB5 with a bootloader that subsequently<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">operates through the Tx/Rx pins on the programming header?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">d.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>