Date: 14/6/2011
Tags: axefx | Last night I investigated whether I could compile and flash
the ROM from Windows7 64bit. The compiling side was fine, I
could build the binary but the program I was using to flash
that binary onto the AVR chip via the parallel port doesn't
work on Windows7-64bit. Which isn't to say you can't do AVR
development on Win7 but it just means that different
software is needed. On XP I've been using PonyProg2000 with
a lot of success.
On the hardware front, I wired up all the pots to the test
harness and checked they were applying the right voltage to
the analog pins. I've soldered those onto the PCB traces and
not the pads because it's a pain removing wires from pads
and then trying to get the solder out and put something else
in.
Software wise I have re-written the menu and not everything
is hooked up at the moment. So I spent some time uncommented
some sections of the controller code and got them compiling
with the new menu layout. The structure of things in memory
(both RAM and EEPROM) has changed to make things more
flexible and those changes need to be propagated out to all
the rest of the code. (Parts that didn't compile originally
have been commented out). Also I put together a Visual
Studio 2005 project for the desktop version of the
controller.
And I'm loving zip ties at the moment... they make things so
much more organized.
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