I am trying to finish my CH3-R hexapod. The calibration with PowerPod worked fine. No connection problems.
When I power up the Basic Atom, it says click sounds and flashes the red, green, yellow lights. Is this normal?
I have installed “Basic Micro Studio”. But I can’t connect to the Basic Atom. In the option it can find the processor. It says it is a “Basic ATOM Pro 28”.
But when I select “connect” from the debug menu it immediately opens a dialog saying: “Invalid Comport selection”. Does any one know what this means?
I am using an USB-to-Serial connector from Lynxmotion (FTDI USB-to-serial).
This is my first post to this forum, although I have been reading up for a quite a while…
Tonight I was trying to power up my BRAT for the first time and ran into the exact same problem you have. I just got the flashing to stop - and a program to load from the IDE.
My problem was I was using the latest Basic Micro Studio from Basic Micro’s website (New! Basic Micro Studio is an all-in-one software to program the Basic ATOM, Basic ATOM Pro, Basic ATOM Nano. Version 1.0.0.15. This is the offical beta release.)
It would find the basic atom, but before I could load a program it would go back to the flashing lights and fail.
So I went back through the tutorials and instead of installing the latest from Basic Micro’s website, I installed the v8.0.1.7 from lynxmotion’s website. Using that, I was able to load the sample BASIC Atom Pro program. Once the sample BASIC Atom Pro program was programmed to the basic atom the flashing stopped. I thought I saw somewhere here that the flashing may be caused by a program already on your atom? I am a novice though, so who knows.
I am glad you got it working with the old verison. My guess is that you can also get it working with the latest stuff.
This will sound strange, but if you get the error message you mentioned and lets say your converter is on Com2. Try dropping the comm port list, choose something else and then choose com2 again… It has worked for me in the past. I think they may not have properly setup the comm port when it is first installed.
The Flashing is just a test program we ship all modules with. This lets us know the module is still running properly when it is received.
In regards to the first poster. Your message says you click Connect to conenct to the debugger but you can’t do that without first clicking “Debug” to program the chip with debug code. Once the module has been programmed with a debugger enabled program then you click Connect to conenct to it(though it will do this automatically after you click Debug and it finishes programming).
In regards to the second poster: Sounds to me liek you did click program or debug to load code to you module and it failed. can you give us more information on it as Jim requested. Note that in Studio Find will find any module(Nano,Atom,Atompro) but to program the module you must have the Family type dropdown(first dropdown) set to the correct family type(Nano,Atom or AtomPro). Also you should have the specific module selected or Auto selected in the processor dropdown(second drop down).
Hi,
First of all, I am a naive programmer, please pardon me for my lack of knowledge with this topic.
I am working on SSC-32 ATOM. When I am trying to load my program on to the memory, I get an error saying, “Connection problem, Handle invalid”. I am using basic atom 8.0.1.7. I am using a serial cable for the connection. I would appreciate any help I get on this issue.
First, uninstall 8.0.1.7 and download and install BasicMicro Studio(should be 1.0.0.30) from our website. Then try prorgamming the same code. I expect you will either get no error message or a different error massage. Let me know what the new error message is. We do not support 8.0.1.7 other than for legacy code. Also since you are a different user from the one who stated this thread you may want to give more information. What OS are you using? Is the serial cable a real serial cable or a USB to serial adapter(sorry, but I have to ask this)? Have you ever used the serial port on your PC for anything else? What comport number is it showing as(com3,com4 etc…). What exact hardware are you using(BB2, Atom24,28 module, AtomPro28 module etc…)? What basic code are you trying to use? Post it or give a link to the code. Are you using code from one of the Tutorials? If so just say which tutorial.
If you get a new error message or the same old one in Studio I need you to copy the entire message text. I assume it is in a popup message box so you will have to copy it manually.
