FTDI + Menta = busted

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MisterG65
 
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FTDI + Menta = busted

Post by MisterG65 »

Made a menta. Great piece of kit
Plugged in FTDI and uploaded a 8x8 matrix sketch. Sort of worked, although the images were one column across from where they should be.
Tried amended code; nothing. Tried the "Blink" sketch; still nothing.

Reset the Menta and the Red LED flashes a couple of times. Uploading the sketch gives "green - red - red" on the FTDI friend.
IDE output is
===== BEGIN
Binary sketch size: 1,084 bytes (of a 30,720 byte maximum)
/Applications/Adafruit Arduino 1.0.5.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -C/Applications/Adafruit Arduino 1.0.5.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -v -v -v -patmega328p -carduino -P/dev/cu.usbserial-A5027XJO -b57600 -D -Uflash:w:/var/folders/y7/139vxlj516x2yw7bm7__ky5r0000gn/T/build5589220843991675894.tmp/Blink.cpp.hex:i

avrdude: Version 5.11, compiled on Sep 2 2011 at 18:52:52
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

System wide configuration file is "/Applications/Adafruit Arduino 1.0.5.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/Users/mark/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

Using Port : /dev/cu.usbserial-A5027XJO
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 57600
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude done. Thank you.

===== END

What next, please?

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adafruit_support_bill
 
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Re: FTDI + Menta = busted

Post by adafruit_support_bill »

Sounds like the bootloader is running on reset, but it's not responding to the download request.
If you post some photos of the front & back of the Menta we'll check it out.

MisterG65
 
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Re: FTDI + Menta = busted

Post by MisterG65 »

I found a sort of workaround: If I hold down the reset button and only release it after the "compiling" message in the IDE it seems to work

EDIT: Images added
Menta_1.jpg
Menta_1.jpg (187.36 KiB) Viewed 147 times
Menta_2.jpg
Menta_2.jpg (170.42 KiB) Viewed 147 times

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