[KwartzLab] reprogramming the kwartzlab Kick

[James Bastow]

Hey Darin,

Have you populated C2? It is required for the (RTS/DTR) auto-reset to work.
A reset button should work, too.

Have a look at the kick
schematic<http://www.kwartzlab.ca/mediawiki/images/3/33/Kick.SCH.pdf>for
reference.

James



On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Darin White <darin.white at rogers.com> wrote:

> Hey makers,
>
> I'm trying to reprogram an awesome kwartzlab Kick minimal Arduino board
> from last year's Hacky Halloween.  Hitting errors.  Grateful for help from
> anyone who has tried this.
>
> I'm using the hacked cable I documented here:
> http://www.kwartzlab.ca/2010/04/reverse-engineering-cheap-ardu/
>
> I added the Kick board specs to boards.txt as outlined in the HH wiki.  In
> the IDE, the board is set to that entry. Serial port correctly set to COM9,
> which has been configured 9600,8,N,1.  And I've tried all options under
> Tools/Programmer.  I'm getting the error "avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in
> sync: resp=0x00", which googles up a ton of various causes.  Anybody run
> into the same thing?  Next, I'm going to add a switch to reset the device
> as I recall that being required with loading code on the original SoOnCon
> badges: specifically the timing of that reset.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> DW
>
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