Hi, I’ve had my rainbowduino for awhile and have programmed it with my arduino Mega several times. But last week it refused to be programmed. I just get “programmer not responding” in the arduino ide. So I bought a USB FTDI cable to use and now I get the same exact error.
I’m thinking the bootloader is messed up somehow, but I don’t know how to fix that problem.
Thanks for any help,
Tony
If the bootloader is corrupt, and it does happen from time to time. You’ll need to write a new bootloader to the Rainbowduino.
From memory the Rainbowduino uses the Arduino NG Nano bootloader - but any NG should be fine.
You’ll either need a STK500 programmer (or clone) or you could use a Seeeduino to program the Raindbowduino through UART.
Thanks a lot.
Can I use an Arduino Mega to fix the bootloader?
Please find the attached zip file.
Rainbowduinos burned Arduino_2009 bootloader and fuse setting.
Please repair as the pdf shows.
Thanks
Albert
FixSeeeduino_v2.12.zip (233 KB)