Filco tenkeyless custom ATmega32u4 controller

[fossala]

I keep getting keyboard crashes. It's happening when I'm not at the PC. I come back and have to re-plug in to use the keyboard. It also messes up my other keyboards that are plugged it.

[Vierax]

It seems an issue with the suspend to ram or the suspend to disk feature

[HzFaq]

Is anyone having any problems when using this with the Filco Tenkey pad?

It was working fine for an hour or two but now whenever I toggle numlock on (when you plug it in it starts in off) the whole pad freezes and I need to unplug it to get it to respond. I haven't messed around with the firmware yet so don't know if there is something in there that might be causing it?

[yeeeargh]

hi,
i have a question regarding programming the controller. (might be a good idea to open a thread in the workshop subforum for all the technical questions...)
i can program it with flip without any problems.
i'm trying to do all the programming in eclipse (with an avr-plugin and avrdude). does anyone know if avrdude can be used to replace flip to program it over usb? i have done it with arduinos, but they are programmed over a serial port instead of usb.

[bpiphany]

Go wiki =) http://deskthority.net/wiki/AVR-Keyboard

I guess you are talking Windows now.. On Linux there is a command line tool called dfu-programmer that works like a charm.

[hasu]

I don't know about avr-plugin and eclipse but you'll use other command line tool instead than avrdude.

FLIP distribution includes command line tool named 'batchisp'. Also you can get 'dfu-programmer' command for Windows from somewhere. I usually use dfu-programmer to program AVR with DFU bootloader.

My makefile has some targets using these programmer.

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teensy: $(TARGET).hex
        teensy_loader_cli -mmcu=$(MCU) -w -v $(TARGET).hex

flip: $(TARGET).hex
        batchisp -hardware usb -device $(MCU) -operation erase f
        batchisp -hardware usb -device $(MCU) -operation loadbuffer $(TARGET).hex program
        batchisp -hardware usb -device $(MCU) -operation start reset 0

dfu: $(TARGET).hex
        dfu-programmer $(MCU) erase
        dfu-programmer $(MCU) flash $(TARGET).hex
        dfu-programmer $(MCU) reset

dfu-start:
        dfu-programmer $(MCU) reset
        dfu-programmer $(MCU) start

flip-ee: $(TARGET).hex $(TARGET).eep
        $(COPY) $(TARGET).eep $(TARGET)eep.hex
        batchisp -hardware usb -device $(MCU) -operation memory EEPROM erase
        batchisp -hardware usb -device $(MCU) -operation memory EEPROM loadbuffer $(TARGET)eep.hex program
        batchisp -hardware usb -device $(MCU) -operation start reset 0
        $(REMOVE) $(TARGET)eep.hex

dfu-ee: $(TARGET).hex $(TARGET).eep
        dfu-programmer $(MCU) eeprom-flash $(TARGET).eep
        dfu-programmer $(MCU) reset

[yeeeargh]

I'm aware of the wiki as I have made use of it already
As I said I got it working with FLIP without problems. I think what I wanted to ask is whats the difference of the method FLIP and dfu-programmer flashes the controller instead of avrdude really. And if there is a way to use avrdude with the controller.

Is it really "just" the difference on how the bootloader of controller works?

Edit: Just saw Hasu's post. I guess I have to read a bit more about bootloaders...

[litster]

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[webwit]

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[litster]

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[webwit]

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