Hi.
I’m new to this open source project.
I will be receiving my first SSC-32 board in a few days and I have a hunch that I will contain the mega8 micro on it.
Since a have a few mega168 micros laying around and dying to be put to service, would anyone care to write small walk-through as to how I can program one of these mega168 micros to replace the mega8 on the SSC-32 board.
Any help would be deeply appreciated.
I’m not sure how to do it since the new ATmega chip hasn’t even had time to come off the shelf yet. To upgrade the the firmware of the SSC-32, You use the visual sequencer software or the free LynxTerm software. I have not done this so I can’t give any details off the top of my head, but if you download the LynxTerm manual, I belive it has a section discussing how you update the ATmega8 chips firmware. I know you want to use the mega168 but if you learn how the mega8 is done, you will have a better understanding of how to upgrade to the 168 version.
Perhaps someone here with more information about this can add more detail than I have.
Sorry if i go off-topic now, but what is the improvements of ATmega 168? I thought tolisn would like to know that as well, because it might not be enough making it worth changing (for now).
Features of the new 168 firmware has non volitile registers that hold…
o Servo offsets for all 32 channels.
o Servo min and max positions.
o Startup strings.
Other stuff too, but I don’t have the info at my disposal right now.
All of this will be covered when I post everything next week. Firmwares, source, doc’s, everything…
Will you be also describing how we can program our own mega168 chip, bootloader and all ?
Can someone please describe how we can program the bootloader into a mega168 chip. I have a few of these and I was thinking of using them to upgrade my SSC-32. Any help on programming the bootloader into the chip would be great.
The 168 bootloader isn’t even released yet. Nothing can be done without the file anyway. You’re just going to have to be patient. Sorry…
