Help making a Soarer's controller with a ProMicro
Posted: 06 Apr 2020, 16:31
Hi everyone, first of all, thanks for reading!
Well, some time ago (6 months ago or so) I made a Soarer's adapter for a Model F XT and it works flawlessly. Now I got a BigFoot, so I'm trying to do the same, but I'm running with a little issue.
If I didn't understood badly, making a controller or a converter is really easy, just flash the correspondent .hex file (the one that ends with atmega32u4) with avrdude and then you check with scinfo that all is at it should before proceeding to load the configuration. Well, I flash the Soarer_Controller_v1.20_beta4_atmega32u4.hex, I can read on the terminal (I'm working on Linux) that all has gone well, then try to check and... Soarer's converter not found. Well, I'll try again (yes, yes, I'm shorting RST with GND 2 times to get into the right mode, and yes, avrdude returns exactly what it should) but no luck. I don't give up that easily, so I tried with another Pro Micro, same luck (I bought 2 for this, just in case), so I went ahead and booted up a Windows to try doing it in anther SO just because... I don't know why... But same, again, cmd returns everything is ok, but is not. I also tried to make a converter instead, but even using the same files I had from when I made my original converter, it wouldn't go, Windows doesn't recognise what is plugged in after flashing the .hex (either of them). If I test scinfo with my functioning converter, it does work, and of course, Windows doesn't complain it doesn't recognise what has just been plugged in.
Just to be clear, my goal is to do a controller for the BigFoot, the converter part is just some troubleshooting I made
My only 2 hypothesis are that either I'm stupid or that those Pro Micro are not exactly what they say they are. Clearly written on the MCU is "MEGA32u4 -MU 1821E PH 1821RGY". I noticed that my working Pro Micro, despite being identical in shape color and everything, the MCU says "MEGA32u4 -MU 1821E PH A9QZ6A". The only other thing to add is that I shorted J1 to prevent the voltage drop on this boards and that I already have my BigFoot hooked up to one of the Pro Micros, so I got some work already done.
I purchased both of Pro Micros here: https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B07FQJ ... =UTF8&th=1 (it was on sale, I paid like 3,5 euros each couple of months ago).
The other one came way before, from another seller.
So... ideas? Thanks!
Well, some time ago (6 months ago or so) I made a Soarer's adapter for a Model F XT and it works flawlessly. Now I got a BigFoot, so I'm trying to do the same, but I'm running with a little issue.
If I didn't understood badly, making a controller or a converter is really easy, just flash the correspondent .hex file (the one that ends with atmega32u4) with avrdude and then you check with scinfo that all is at it should before proceeding to load the configuration. Well, I flash the Soarer_Controller_v1.20_beta4_atmega32u4.hex, I can read on the terminal (I'm working on Linux) that all has gone well, then try to check and... Soarer's converter not found. Well, I'll try again (yes, yes, I'm shorting RST with GND 2 times to get into the right mode, and yes, avrdude returns exactly what it should) but no luck. I don't give up that easily, so I tried with another Pro Micro, same luck (I bought 2 for this, just in case), so I went ahead and booted up a Windows to try doing it in anther SO just because... I don't know why... But same, again, cmd returns everything is ok, but is not. I also tried to make a converter instead, but even using the same files I had from when I made my original converter, it wouldn't go, Windows doesn't recognise what is plugged in after flashing the .hex (either of them). If I test scinfo with my functioning converter, it does work, and of course, Windows doesn't complain it doesn't recognise what has just been plugged in.
Just to be clear, my goal is to do a controller for the BigFoot, the converter part is just some troubleshooting I made
My only 2 hypothesis are that either I'm stupid or that those Pro Micro are not exactly what they say they are. Clearly written on the MCU is "MEGA32u4 -MU 1821E PH 1821RGY". I noticed that my working Pro Micro, despite being identical in shape color and everything, the MCU says "MEGA32u4 -MU 1821E PH A9QZ6A". The only other thing to add is that I shorted J1 to prevent the voltage drop on this boards and that I already have my BigFoot hooked up to one of the Pro Micros, so I got some work already done.
I purchased both of Pro Micros here: https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B07FQJ ... =UTF8&th=1 (it was on sale, I paid like 3,5 euros each couple of months ago).
The other one came way before, from another seller.
So... ideas? Thanks!