I'm continuing my quest to connect an absurd number of Conway's Game of Life kits together, as it is very cool for my students to solder a square together and then have it become part of a larger thing. The frame I've made for them will eventually mount 156 kits together, and I finally have all of them here, after reordering several times when they went out of stock.
Today is the first day I've run into one of the Atmel chips not working... I was troubleshooting a board with a student and we just couldn't see what was wrong, but we got no response when the power was connected. Finally I swapped the chip in from another student's board, and low and behold it worked perfectly!
So now I'm one chip short... I am wonder whether there's a way to reload the firmware onto this chip (I've looked at the github and it's a bit over my head -- what equipment would I need and what software to use to write to it.), or if I could send it back for a replacement.
Thank you for supporting my students' soldering journeys for several years!!!
Mr. Loyd
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