Is my flashing kit just dead?

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I was happily flashing my lights when for no apparent reason, my kit stopped responding properly. I don't know if it was a software thing or if I somehow physically damaged the kit, there isn't any particular reason to think either happened - I was careful with the kit and did my best to avoid static discharge, which is the only thing I think could have happened.

To make a long story short, I cannot get avrdude to recognize my Emisar flashing kit. This is the error I get:

avrdude: error: could not find USB device with vid=0x16c0 pid=0x5dc vendor='www.fischl.de' product='USBasp'

avrdude done. Thank you.



I experienced another error before this, a similar issue where USBasp was not recognized, but I didn't record exactly what it said - I believe this was it:

avrdude: Warning: cannot query manufacturer for device: No such file or directory
avrdude: Warning: cannot query product for device: No such file or directory
avrdude: error: could not find USB device with vid=0x16c0 pid=0x5dc vendor='www.fischl.de' product='USBasp'

avrdude done.  Thank you.

Zadig doesn't even recognize the device, where it normally reads USBasp it now reads "Unkown USB Device (Port Reset Failed)".

In other words, Windows no longer recognizes my flashing kit. I have tried various ways to repair it through the device manager and Zadig, but to no avail.

Same story with when I tried again on Linux.

So basically, is my flashing kit totally destroyed? Or is there some way this can be remedied? I have never had much luck flashing microcontrollers, so any insights at all would be helpful.

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I wouldn’t worry about it since the USBasp can be bought for about $2. Hank actually marks it up a ton. The only thing that his kit contributes is the contact stick that makes it a bit easier to line up with the flashing pads. The rest is just standard.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32670511994.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.38339b16xX21VD&algo_pvid=e2a9570b-005d-4d91-8408-4568c2387612&algo_exp_id=e2a9570b-005d-4d91-8408-4568c2387612-0&pdp_ext_f={"sku_id"%3A"66714631037"}

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Ummm, reboot?

Every time any system that’s running POS Windoze 10 grabs updates, it’ll deliberately f up things to “gently nudge” you into rebooting, with the only option “update then shut down” vs just “shut down”.

Eh, worth a shot…

Please, Sweet Meteor Of Death, land on Redmond and save us all.

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I’ve been looking around for another programmer, the problem is I can spend barely anything on aliexpress and have it arrive months from now, or I can pay way more to get it from Amazon and have it arrive in a reasonable time… when either way they have plenty of reviews saying they don’t work properly. Do you think that will be an issue? Is there a chance it won’t work for some reason? Most of the issues seem to be driver-related

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Hi fogofwar, could you please point me to a place that educates me on how to wire an USBasp to my TS10? I think I have pins somewhere in spacer rail so I can make contact to the board. What’s between the pins and the USBasp?
Thank you in advance.

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fogofwar hasn’t been seen since January 29th of this year. :+1:

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Thank you for letting me know. Sorry for that.

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No problem.
They might come back some day, but y’know, don’t hold your breath. :grin:

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Most of the time these days I have to lift up on my flash board to get the USB to connect properly… reminiscent of wedging a bit of folded matchbook under an 8 track tape to ensure only one song played. :wink:

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Check to be sure one of the pins didn’t slide up on your clamp to the ATTINY, verify that all leads are connected in the plug on the board. It’s all a fairly delicate set-up.

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You need a different type of programmer for the TS10 (UPDI).

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Thank you for letting me know. I’m pretty much ready to get skilled in this topic but no idea where to start. Is there a generic topic on flasing so one would learn how to handle different lights? What MCU is in the TS10? What is the pinout? What protocol it takes?

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SammysHP, thank you very much for the jumpstart!
Decades ago I built and programmed devices using Intel’s ancient 8749s. Hope I can catch up with this topic. Very much appreciated.

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here is an excellent video showing how to reflash a TS10:

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Thank you for the vid.
Now I only need to figure out if I need to use the kit in the vid or I could use this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LZV1G6K?pldnSite=1.
Going slowly but nothing is urging me.

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Definite YES!

the one on amazon does not have the pogo pins that connect to the TS10. It is not a complete solution.

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I live in a smal country with limited payment methods and poor postal services. I rather do some soldering work than order from the US. If that CH340 module works electronically I’m ready to do those pins and wire them. The CH340 is available locally and I have tools do do such work - if that could work theoretically.

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If that CH340 module works electronically

yes, more info in these links:

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This webpage likely has everything you’d ever want to know about wiring up your own programmer for lights with the attiny1616 (like the TS10).

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