minipov2 rocks! (also: getting avrdude working on ubuntu)

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minipov2 rocks! (also: getting avrdude working on ubuntu)

Post by kragen »

So some friends and I got together to do a little elementary electronics geeking tonight, including three of us building minipov2 kits to get our basic skills up to snuff. Beautiful! Mine and my wife's worked perfectly as soon as we got everything put together. It did take us a little longer than the expected hour, though --- more like two hours --- but we were eating pizza.

It took me another hour to figure out what I needed to do to get avrdude working on Linux, partly because so many people were trying to help me, and partly because Internet access was flaky. It turns out:
- the canonical name for /dev/ttyP0 is /dev/parport0
- it doesn't exist on my Ubuntu laptop (Hoary Hedgehog I think)
- but I could create it with "mknod /dev/parport0 c 99 0"

Updating http://www.ladyada.net/make/minipov2/make.html with this info would probably help the next guy who tries to get this stuff working.

Having the test_leds program preloaded on the ATtinies is terrific --- you know as soon as you get your batteries in that everything works.

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Post by adafruit »

thanks ill update it. im a little bit out of the linux-loop.

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