- Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:32 am
#154753
Tried the Arduino and Adafruit fora; going for three
I remember taking a class at Sparkfun and watching them burn a sketch onto a pro or simon kit using avrdude. So I've gotten that far myself with a USBTiny and a minimalist ZIF socket board.
But for an upcoming project (an interface between an old serial gaming device and USB HID, like a hardware driver) I want to be able to ship with a preloaded sketch so people who assemble it can plug and play without additional steps, but also with the bootloader preloaded so that they can upload new sketches with the Arduino environment using a FTDI cable rather than forcing them to get an ISP.
Is there a way to flash both at the same time in one pass using an ISP like USBTiny? I'm assuming it means making one big .hex file, but I'm unclear how to do that.
I remember taking a class at Sparkfun and watching them burn a sketch onto a pro or simon kit using avrdude. So I've gotten that far myself with a USBTiny and a minimalist ZIF socket board.
But for an upcoming project (an interface between an old serial gaming device and USB HID, like a hardware driver) I want to be able to ship with a preloaded sketch so people who assemble it can plug and play without additional steps, but also with the bootloader preloaded so that they can upload new sketches with the Arduino environment using a FTDI cable rather than forcing them to get an ISP.
Is there a way to flash both at the same time in one pass using an ISP like USBTiny? I'm assuming it means making one big .hex file, but I'm unclear how to do that.
Last edited by vputz on Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:19 am, edited 1 time in total.