I connected it to my computer with a serial port. It worked and I managed to upload programs to the Basic. Then while changing to the basic stamp and then back to the basic atom, it stoped working. I believe that I put the basic atom the wrong way in (I didn’t put pin 1 in the slot for pin 1). No smoke or anything. I put it back the right way and it didn’t work. My basic stamp still works with the mini ABB so it’s not the board. Maybe I changed a couple of setting in the system preferences but it seams like I tried them all.
Is it possible that I fried my Basic Atom by putting it the wrong way in? I thought they were protected from that. I guess I will be obligated to purchase another one… The first time I get it to work in 18 month, I fry it right after…
Have you verified all of the IO pins are in and making good contact. Sometimes in the past I had a problem that an IO pin would get bent over and not fully installed properly. So the first thing I would do is to try again to reseat the Atom and hope it works.
Also remember that the first program to use the serial port likes to hold on to it and not let any other program have access to it. So if you have the Basic Stamp editor running when you open the Basic Micro editor you will never gain access to the serial port.
Well, if you fried it by putting it in backwards(which is unlikely if you are using one of our devboards or one of Lynxmotion boards) you don’t have to buy a new one. Call us(Basicmicro) when we come back from the holidays(5th) and we’ll have you ship it back so we can fix anything that got fried. Worse case will be cost of replacement(our cost) which will be less than a new one.
The first time I get it to work in 18 month, I fry it right after…