Source: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=2407
A follow up to “The Lost Episode”. Flashing the blank Atmega328p chip to get bring a nonworking Transistor Tester Kit to life.
There are a lot of these kits out there. Different shapes, colors, and capabilities. In my case the kit was called a: 2578AY-AT. The firmware for this particular kit is: mega328_color_kit.
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Pics for the Episode:
http://media.gunmonkeynet.net/u/nybill/collection/the-lost-episode-part-2/ -
PDF of Open Source project:
http://www.avrtester.tode.cz/upload/ttester_en.pdf -
My AVR Programmer:
https://www.amazon.com/Qunqi-Programmer-Adapter-ATMEGA8-ATMEGA128/dp/B014J2BMAG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1508004600&sr=8-3&keywords=usbasp -
Avrdudess:
http://blog.zakkemble.co.uk/avrdudess-a-gui-for-avrdude/ -
Steps after plugging in the USB programmer:
lsusb (get bus and device ID numbers.)
sudo chmod +777 /dev/bus/usb/*bus_ID/*device_ID
avrdude -c ‘your programmer’ -p ‘your chip’- In my case:
avrdude -c usbasp -p m328pAvrdude should communicate with the programmer and verify the chip is ready to receive instructions.
From here Avrdudess helped as I was able to use the ‘verify’ options after a write to see there was an error. Avrdudess also let me correct the error by changing the E-lock value to 0x04. Then the flash would write.
Remember to write the hex file first and the eep file second as hex would over write a eep file if it was written first.
