[C.CC USERS] Issue uploading firmware to the Arduino Diecimila

Michael Pirrone-Brusse pirronm at allegheny.edu
Fri Aug 27 06:50:11 BST 2010


Hey Sam,
    First thing I'm gonna say is that I'm sort of the brave little developer
around here. Emphasis being on 'little'. I'm courageous enough to take a
swing at diagnosing the issue, but what I'm saying might be completely
wrong. We'll both know when one of the smarter hats gets the chance to drop
in their two cents.

    From what I've found, the Diecimila comes standard with the ATmega168
microcontroller (if your board doesn't have a 168, disregard all that
follows). The ATmega168 only has 16Kb of flash memory -- which is where we
drop the firmware -- and the Transterpreter has grown to be a bit bigger
than that. In the work I was doing with Prof. Jadud, the smallest ATmega we
were using was the 328p (which has 32Kb flash).
    The good news is a quick Google search shows a new 328 to run all of
$6.00, and it's a pretty trivial thing to swap out the microcontroller on an
Arduino.
    The bad news is -- if I'm right -- the hardware you have simply can't
run the Transterpreter.

    I'm kinda hoping I'm wrong about everything I wrote there and that we do
have a quick fix for getting the firmware loaded onto a Diecimila. Either
way, best of luck, and have fun exploring,
        -Drew

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Sam Ducksworth <sducksworth at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am getting the following error when trying to upload firmware to my
> Arduino Diecimila
>
> Uploading Plumbing firmware
> Device id: arduino
> Using config: /usr/share/tvm-avr/conf/arduino.conf
> Command: [/usr/bin/avrdude, -C, /etc/avrdude.conf, -U,
> flash:w:/usr/share/tvm-avr/firmware/tvm-avr-atmega328p-16000000.hex:i,
> -F, -P, /dev/ttyUSB0, -c, arduino, -p, m328p, -b, 57600]
> avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0xe0
>
> avrdude done.  Thank you.
>
> firmware upload exited with error code: 1
>
> I am able to program it using the native Arduino IDE. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --samd
>
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