How to kill a Minion !

[Altamirador]

Just learned the hard way the easiest way to kill a Minion !

Simply overwrite the main() procedure ! :( Not good !!

Any ideas on how to fix this ?

[Dave Boulton]

Hi,

I assume you're using the Atmel Studio software to program your Minion. Have never used that, I do all my stuff with the Arduino IDE (which sucks, but haven't got the time to learn anything else just now). Can't you just re-flash the program again? Not really sure what the problem is, please post more details if you have them.

Dave

[Tamsyn Michael]

Your symptoms sound different to the mine, but that could just be because of my methods (running the Arduino IDE in Debian).  My Minion was well and truly corpse-like at any rate.

I managed to crash one of my Minions so that it would freeze when uploading a sketch, and not run any sketch at all (even the one I'd successfully uploaded previously).

After a bit of noodling around on the internet I discovered this was a common issue with this bootloader (which is also used on the LeoStick if you want to read up).

By replacing the bootloader with the one suggested I not only have a working Minion once again, but one that is much less likely to develop the same issue in the future.

I'm afraid I can't help with the method of updating the bootloader, since one of our more knowledgeable Hackerspace members did it for me.  He used a Mega, but I don't know which pins and program he used.  Should be a How-To or Guru that's more helpful.

Hope this is helpful, if not for you then someone else with a dear departed Minion.  Goodluck!

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