My built-from-scratch Cyton, stalled at the firmware level..

shadowphile · September 2017

My board is a Cyton clone layed out myself and filled with raw parts ordered from Digikey.

I am progressively installing components them testing them, starting with the power supplies. Right now I've finished installing the MCU.

I followed the main instructions and got to the point where I was supposed to use SW1 and SW2 to get blinky blue leds. Nothing blinks.

I then decided that this chip did not come with bootloader (*IS THIS TRUE?*), so now I'm trying to work that out. The forum conversations are pretty old (they refer to MPIDE which apparently has been superseded by chipKit core now).

So where do I start? I have a chipKit PGM connected to the appropriate pins on J3 and J4.

But I get confused about where to get the correct hex file (or source if I have to compile myself), which environment I have to use (MPLAB to get the bootloader installed, or can I do that with the Arduino?

I have the board plugged into the programmer and the Arduino IDE set to chipKit DP32 but I don't seem to get a new comm port. At this point I'm just flailing around!

thanks