Uploads never finish

[shop4mondon]

Recently, every one of our Playground Classic boards have stopped working. We try to upload sketches and they never finish. On Macs, we never get an error. The upload process never finishes. On Windows, it takes a long time, but we get an upload error that gives no details.

They all worked fine for a while, but after a few uploads, they die.

[mikeysklar]

Are you uploading the sketches with the Arduino IDE or something else?

Have you tried uploading a simple stock Adafruit example like the external_neopixels.ino?

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Ci ... pixels.ino

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#include <Adafruit_CircuitPlayground.h>
// do NOT include the standard NeoPixel library

#define NEOPIX_PIN    A2
#define NUM_PIXELS    5

// use Adafruit_CPlay_NeoPixel to create a separate external NeoPixel strip
Adafruit_CPlay_NeoPixel strip = Adafruit_CPlay_NeoPixel(NUM_PIXELS, NEOPIX_PIN, NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800);

void setup() {
  // initialize the Circuit Playground as usual
  // this will initialize the onboard NeoPixels as well
  CircuitPlayground.begin();

  // initialize external NeoPixel strip separately
  strip.begin();
}

void loop() {
  // for the on board NeoPixels, use the CircuitPlayground functions
  CircuitPlayground.clearPixels();
  
  // for the external NeoPixels, must use the Adafruit_CPlay_NeoPixel functions directly
  strip.clear();
  strip.show();

  delay(500);

  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(0, 255,   0,   0);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(1, 128, 128,   0);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(2,   0, 255,   0);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(3,   0, 128, 128);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(4,   0,   0, 255);
  
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(5, 0xFF0000);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(6, 0x808000);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(7, 0x00FF00);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(8, 0x008080);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(9, 0x0000FF);

  // some functions are the same
  strip.setPixelColor(0, 255,   0,   0);
  strip.setPixelColor(1, 128, 128,   0);
  strip.setPixelColor(2,   0, 255,   0);
  strip.setPixelColor(3,   0, 128, 128);
  strip.setPixelColor(4,   0,   0, 255);
  
  // but for the external strip, must call show()
  strip.show();

  delay(5000);
}