[C.CC USERS] Using Mac for Plumbing Firmware Upload

[Matt Jadud]

Hi James,

It isn't entirely irrelevant.

I'm going into the lab later today, and will grab my 2560. I'll see what I
can do. It will take me an extra day, though, because my 2560 has a
bootloader on it that is broken: that is, it is impossible to separately
upload the firmware and the bytecode, as my 2560 puts everything at
location 0. That means that

1. I upload a firmware. It goes to location zero, where it should.
2. I upload a bytecode file (compiled occam program). It, also, goes to
location zero... thus, destroying the firmware.

This was a bootloader bug that should be fixed now. However, depending on
the age of Christian's  2560, this could be a problem with its bootloader
as well. We'll find that out as part of this.

We had a fix for this, but it isn't in the IDE.

Cheers,
Matt


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, James Brown <james.brown4994 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ah sorry I have now read the title.  Your question relates to Mac.  I
> don’t have an experience of Mac so most of what I have said is probably not
> usefuly.****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* James Brown [mailto:james.brown4994 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 23 March 2013 16:48
> *To:* 'Christian Lewis'; users at concurrency.cc
> *Subject:* RE: [C.CC USERS] Using Mac for Plumbing Firmware Upload****
>
> ** **
>
> Hi****
>
> I am not really an expert either but ****
>
> **-          **Are you doing this using USB?****
>
> **-          **If so, the arduino board should register to a COM port
> number****
>
> **-          **This should be the same as when you use the arduino IDE.
> Is this working correctly?****
>
> **-          **did you get the COM port no in the dropdown on the
> firmware upload and did you select it?****
>
> **-          **did you select the correct board in the dropdown?****
>
> **-          **Unplug and plug in the usb cable?****
>
> **-          **Try restarting the pc:  don’t know why but I have had
> issues with this error and restarting has occasionally been the only
> answer. ****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* users-bounces at concurrency.cc [mailto:users-bounces at concurrency.cc<users-bounces at concurrency.cc>]
> *On Behalf Of *Christian Lewis
> *Sent:* 23 March 2013 15:50
> *To:* users at concurrency.cc
> *Subject:* [C.CC USERS] Using Mac for Plumbing Firmware Upload****
>
> ** **
>
> Hi, I'm really not sure if I'm doing this mail listing thing correctly,
> but here goes nothin'!****
>
> ** **
>
> So I'm trying to get started with using concurrency on my Arduino Mega
> 2560, so I've gone into the Transterpreter software for Mac to upload the
> Plumbing firmware onto the Arduino, but I keep getting this message in the
> window that you upload from, it says:****
>
> ** **
>
> Uploading Plumbing firmware****
>
> avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding****
>
> ** **
>
> avrdude done.  Thank you.****
>
> ** **
>
> firmware upload exited with error code: 1****
>
> ** **
>
> I've tried ports:****
>
> - /dev/tty.usbmodem1d11****
>
> - /dev/cu.usbmodem1d11****
>
> - /dev/tty.usbserial-A9007U6Z   (this one gives a different message,
> saying that it can't open the device and that there is no such file
> directory)****
>
> ** **
>
> None of these work. It says in the Concurrency PDF that this firmware is
> "just an overgrown Arduino sketch", so does that mean that I could take the
> file that Transterpreter is trying to upload to my Arduino Mega and place
> it in the Arduino IDE and just upload it from there and continue on how I
> would, had this problem not occurred? If not, then does anyone know what
> might be the problem and how I could fix this?****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks for any advice.****
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