> >I have a program that I want to try out for my brother in Florida. >I'm in NJ. : ) he has the PALM and the collage he is in has a >greenhouse that he is taking care of. > >I figured that with a bootloader, I can write a new program if needed >and e-mail it to him. > >Since he is working with plants, he has no electronical stuff. > >I was figuring a bootloader would let him send a new program without >a programmer. > >But, the weekly changes would be changing variables like time ON for >sprinklers and duration of run times. I see.. An AVRISP could be used, if you could write NSB code to drive it. I'll warn you of this though, there's no way to send $FF to the serial port in NSBasic. Originally there was no way to send a null, because he uses null terminated strings. So, he "fixed" it by translating FF to 00... AARRRRGGGHHH.. Now we just convert FE to FF, and FD to FE, and....
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Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: sending code to a chip - Palm and bootloaders
2004-06-26 by Dave VanHorn
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