[C.CC USERS] users Digest, Vol 14, Issue 1

[Matt Jadud]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 17:56, Paul Verbeke <paverbeke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just received a Duemilanova with a 328. Tried the heartbeat program and it
> seems to work fine. Then tried the following and it did not change the blink
> rate to 100ms as I would have thought, it remained the same. And yes I did
> download the firmware. Has anyone else got this to work? It seems like the
> new program is not overwriting the old one...

What baffles me (I'm not throwing stones here) is that I am using the
Mac version of the tools that we ship to program RBBBs (Really Bare
Bones Boards), which are, for all intents and purposes, Duemilanovas.
I'm using the Sparkfun FTDI adapter... again, nothing weird.

I'm not using any voodoo magic, but I can upload complex code, modify
it, upload again.

> CODE:
> #INCLUDE "plumbing.module"
> PROC main ()
>   blink (13, 100)
> :

So, Paul. What is going on... these community errors bother me deeply,
because I'm not able to replicate them.

I'm using a Mac running 10.6, and running the Mac version of the
build. I have a "2009" and have programmed it as well -- but the
boards I work with typically are "essentially" a 2009.

I was using the same machine over the winter break with 10.5 (I
updated), and had no problems. I've used this machine to program 1280s
as well (SeeedMega as well as an original Mega 1280). We are wrestling
with the 2560 at the moment for reasons we don't understand, but
that's unrelated.

I think both Mac and Windows download the same version of 'avrdude',
and both are using the same conf files from the repository. Do you
have any thoughts?

Christian beat me to the reply... perhaps something he said is good/helpful.

Cheers,
Matt

PS. Christian: what if we update the buttons to words in the next
version? "Check and Compile" would make it a big hit target, followed
by "Run on Arduino." These are unambiguous and get around the "what
does a compile icon look like?" question.