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[reizvoller]

Howdy!

Here's the hardware:

Windows 7 Professional 32bit ( latest updates and such )
RedBoard via USB
Arduino IDE

I have attached my RedBoard via USB ( the only method I currently have to connect to it ) to multiple machines using both command line ( via a Debian based linux machine ) and the GUI IDE ( Windows 7 32bit, Windows 10 64bit [separate machines]) and have come to the same errors each time :

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xf0

((((( and then it does it 9 more times )))))

Each machine provides the same error, I don't have another arduino to test against or else I would have

I would feel quite foolish if I found I made an error in /all/ these machines setting up the programmer.

I am just trying to Blink #13

When I press the "Reset" button the #13 LED blinks twice which I believe means the bootloader is functional ( right? )

If there is any other information I can provide please let me know, I gave what I thought would be useful and would like to learn more. Thanks!

-Reiz

[uChip]

Since you don't mention having installed drivers, I would start there.
- Chip

[reizvoller]

Howdy,

For the sake of ensuring accuracy I have reformatted a machine. It's running Windows 10 with the latest stable release updates.

I have just installed ARDUINO 1.6.7 which includes the USB drivers I need ( I believe ) .

I uploaded a screen clipping of what I am seeing now. It's a different error than before which makes me further confused. Are those the correct drivers?

I appreciate your time and help regarding this. I have since moved to making analog circuits and my own logic boards , so that's a plus, but I want to now put those tools to good use with the arduino! lol

Hope we can figure this out. Please let me know what I can provide for you. Thank you again.

-Reiz

[Ross Robotics]

The top solution to that error is to burn the bootloader. I believe the Redboard uses optiboot bootloader. You can search Google for tutorials for this. You can also Google the error in the IDE and try some other solutions you find.

[reizvoller]

Hello!

Thank you for the suggestion, I will look into burning the bootloader immediately. I did see that as a suggestion on other threads but I felt that I may have a different issue since my #13 LED blinks twice after the "Reset" button is pressed on the RedBoard it self. From what I have found I believe that means that the bootloader is functional ( or at least it believes it self to be functional ). Is this true?

Regardless learning how to burn the bootloader properly isn't a bad thing. I will post back with anything I find or if it solves my issue!

Thank you again.

-Reiz

[reizvoller]

Greetings!

So I installed the Optiboot as per the instructions found on the github page ( https://github.com/Optiboot/optiboot ) which was simply copy/paste the github zip contents into the arduino directory under sketches.

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java.lang.NullPointerException
	at cc.arduino.packages.uploaders.SerialUploader.burnBootloader(SerialUploader.java:314)
	at processing.app.Editor.lambda$handleBurnBootloader$42(Editor.java:2754)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Error while burning bootloader.

Now I am getting what seems to be an error with Java. I am far from experienced with the Java environment and language... So... I've no idea. Thoughts?

[Ross Robotics]

That looks like a Wondows 10 issue. And burning the bootloader is not just installing files on your computer. You do it through the IDE under "Tools>Burn Bootloader".

[reizvoller]

Howdy,

Oh I did understand that bit

The error you see there is generated from the IDE when I tried burning the bootloader through it. I am just tossing a guess out there but should I perhaps uninstall java ( or try to ) and then reinstall a specific version?

[Ross Robotics]

No, the IDE has it's own version of Java. If I were you, I would try to install (in a different location) an older version of the IDE. 1.5 or older.

Also it looks like you have the Microsoft drivers installed. Have you downloaded and installed Sparkfun's drivers? https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/ho ... k-and-easy. I have read alot of issues with these errors with Windows 10.