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First things first!
Proto-Pic supplied this board for my review..back in May 2018. It fell behind my desk and a team of archaeologists found the board last weekend. As the board was provided free of charge I need to be clear, Proto-Pic did not ask to see or influence the review in any way. No money changed hands either. They just offered me the kit for review. Sorry its a bit late!
So what is it?
Naughty or nice games. PROGRAM-O-TRON is a tool to program certain ATMega chips without the need for a computer.
Sorry what?
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Ok the PROGRAM-O-TRON can..
- Copy a chip inserted into the holder, and then paste the contents to another compatible chip. Just by using the copy and paste buttons!
- Write a hex or Fuse file from SD card to the chip. You can have up to six files on a card, each file numbered to correspond to the button. For example button 1 has a file on the SD card of
1.hex
, button 2 has a Fuse file2.fus
. - Using the ICSP header we can program a chip already soldered into a project, just connect the ICSP pins of PROGRAM-O-TRON to the ICSP header of your board (Arduino have these)
The PROGRAM-O-TRON has a really simple layout, which lends itself to the task at hand.
So what chips does it work with?
Best casino offers. Via the ZIF socket
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- ATtiny25
- ATtiny45
- ATtiny85
- ATtiny13A
- ATmega168PA
- ATmega168V
- ATmega328P
- ATmega328PB
- ATmega328
- ATmega48PA
- ATmega88PA
Via the ICSP connector
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- ATtiny24
- ATtiny44
- ATtiny84
- ATtiny25
- ATtiny45
- ATtiny85
- ATmega48PA
- ATmega168PA
- ATmega168V
- ATmega328P
- ATmega328PB
- ATmega328
- ATmega164P
- ATmega324P
- ATmega644P
- ATmega640
- ATmega1280
- ATmega1281
- ATmega2560
- ATmega2561
- At90USB82
- At90USB162
- ATmega8U2
- ATmega16U2
- ATmega32U2
- ATmega16U4
- ATmega32U4
- ATmega1284P
- ATmega1284
- ATtiny2313A
- ATtiny4313
- ATtiny13A
- ATmega8A
- ATmega64rfr2
- ATmega128rfr2
- ATmega256rfr2
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So how do I use PROGRAM-O-TRON?
Example 1: Copying an ATMEGA328PU chip
- Insert the ATMEGA328PU into the socket with pin 1 at the top left, nearest the lever.
- Close the lever.
- Power up the PROGRAM-O-TRON and wait until the LEDs settle.
- Press COPY to dump the contents to the PROGRAM-O-TRON.
- When done, remove the ATMEGA328PU, and place the ATMEGA328PU which you wish to flash to!
- Close the lever.
- Press Paste
- Wait for the LEDs to settle.
- Remove the freshly flashed ATMEGA328PU and put it into your project!
Example 2: Flashing a hex file.
- Create an Intel hex file (don't worry I'll be doing this later!) and rename the file to
1.hex
. - Save
1.hex
to an SD card formatted as FAT32 (standard Windows format) - Insert the SD card into PROGRAM-O-TRON.
- Insert the target chip, for example an ATMEGA328PU.
- Power up PROGRAM-O-TRON.
- Press button 1 to flash
1.hex
to the ATMEGA328PU. - Wait for the LEDs to settle.
- Remove the ATMEGA328PU and insert into your project.
How can I flash an Arduino sketch to many ATMEGA328PU?
Here is a use case.
I have written a cool Arduino sketch that I want to copy to lots of ATMEGA328PU chips which will be in a breadboard. I could plug in each ATMEGA328PU into an Arduino Uno and flash each one. Or I could compile the sketch in the Arduino IDE. Copy the hex file to the SD card and use PROGRAM-O-TRON to mass flash the chips.
I have written a cool Arduino sketch that I want to copy to lots of ATMEGA328PU chips which will be in a breadboard. I could plug in each ATMEGA328PU into an Arduino Uno and flash each one. Or I could compile the sketch in the Arduino IDE. Copy the hex file to the SD card and use PROGRAM-O-TRON to mass flash the chips.
So how can I do that?
First we need to find out where the Arduino IDE saves a hex file to when compiling a sketch.
Open the Arduino IDE, and click on File >> Preferences.
In the new window look for Show verbose output during
and click on compilation.
Now open the Blink example sketch. Then go to Tools >> Board and ensure that Genuino / Arduino Uno is selected.
Click on the Verify icon to compile and check the code. After a few seconds the console output at the bottom of the Arduino IDE will show a lot of text. We can poke around in here and learn where the hex file is. In my case it is saved in
Sure enough inside that directory are a number of hex files.
In particular I want the file
I then put the SD card into PROGRAM-O-TRON, and insert the ATMEGA328PU. I power up the PROGRAM-O-TRON and press Button 1 to flash the hex file to the chip.
I then pop the chip into my Arduino to test, and after a few moments I see a blinking LED.
Open the Arduino IDE, and click on File >> Preferences.
In the new window look for Show verbose output during
and click on compilation.
Now open the Blink example sketch. Then go to Tools >> Board and ensure that Genuino / Arduino Uno is selected.
Click on the Verify icon to compile and check the code. After a few seconds the console output at the bottom of the Arduino IDE will show a lot of text. We can poke around in here and learn where the hex file is. In my case it is saved in
/tmp/arduino_build_271256/
as a temporary file.Sure enough inside that directory are a number of hex files.
In particular I want the file
Blink.ino.with_bootloader.hex
which I copy to my SD card and rename to 1.hex
.I then put the SD card into PROGRAM-O-TRON, and insert the ATMEGA328PU. I power up the PROGRAM-O-TRON and press Button 1 to flash the hex file to the chip.
I then pop the chip into my Arduino to test, and after a few moments I see a blinking LED.
So who is this aimed at?
PROGRAM-O-TRON is aimed squarely at people who need to bulk flash chips. So the makers who are selling kits online.
So where can I get one, and how much.
PROGRAM-O-TRON is available from Proto-Pic and it retails for £53.00 inc VAT. Yes this is a big price for such a board, but if you are bulk flashing boards then this piece of kit will save you a lot of time.
Happy Hacking
Great news for macOS High Sierra users: In High Sierra, OmniFocus clips from Mail without needing the Clip-o-Tron. Though Services don’t appear in the contextual menu when you right-click a message, you can use the Menu Bar (Mail > Services) or create a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences for the Send to OmniFocus service to achieve the same result.
This article is no longer applicable to High Sierra users, but may still be useful for those looking to clip from Apple Mail on earlier versions of Mac OS X.
The OmniFocus Clip-o-Tron is a handy tool for extending OmniFocus’s interaction with Mail on your Mac. It lets use your Clippings shortcut to copy Mail messages to Quick Entry. In OmniFocus 1 it could be installed from OmniFocus Preferences, but due to the addition of security features governing what data apps can touch outside their own domains (sandboxing) a different solution was required for OmniFocus 2. We present: the new Clip-o-Tron 3001!
- In OS X Mavericks, when selecting the message in the message list, the Clip-o-Tron plugin will copy the subject, body and attachments from an email message, along with a link back to the original message.
- In OS X Yosemite, OS X El Capitan, and macOS Sierra, when selecting the message in the message list, Apple Mail no longer copies message contents to the pasteboard, so Clip-o-Tron will copy the subject line and link back to the original message. (If Yosemite’s Mail ever restores its support for copying email messages, then OmniFocus will start including that content again without any changes on our part.)
For users of OmniFocus 2, the Clip-o-Tron is available in an installer that does two things:
- It installs the Mail bundle (a plugin for the Mail app, essentially) that enables the more robust clipping capabilities required to grab entire mail messages.
- It also optionally installs a Login item that checks to make sure Clip-o-Tron is still up to date with the version of OS X that you’re running, and provides an update if necessary. If you choose not to install the Login item Clip-o-Tron will still install, but you’ll have to download it again and update manually to keep it working with the latest changes in Mail.
To get started, download the disk image using the link above. Drag the OmniFocus Clip-o-Tron Installer app to your Applications folder and then double-click to open it. You’ll be asked to quit and restart Mail for the plugin to take effect.
Once installed, you can configure a keyboard shortcut for the Clippings service in System Preferences. Otherwise, the Clippings service can be invoked from the right-click menu, or by going to Menu Bar > OmniFocus > Services.
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- Note: If the OmniFocus: Send to Inbox item doesn’t appear in the Services list in System Preferences, you’ll need to reboot your computer to repopulate this list and finish configuring a keyboard shortcut.
You can use this Clippings keyboard shortcut after selecting a message in the Mail message list. The message will be added to OmniFocus Quick Entry as an item with the email subject as the title of the item, and a link back to the original message in the note.
If you’re running OS X Yosemite or later and would like to also capture the message body when clipping, you can still do so by selecting text in the body of the message, instead of selecting the email in your Inbox or message list. The highlighted text will be included as the contents of the new action’s note after you invoke the Clippings shortcut. While this won’t yield the exact same behavior as before — notably, the To, From and Date fields are absent — this may help partially bridge that gap.
Alternatively, if the body of the message is more helpful to your workflow than the link back to the original message, we might recommend trying our Mail Drop service instead, where you forward emails into OmniFocus.
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You can remove Clip-o-Tron at any time by running the installer (the same one that’s available above) and choosing Remove. When Clip-o-Tron isn’t installed you can still clip content highlighted in Mail’s message content area using the Clippings shortcut set up in OmniFocus Preferences.
Last Modified: Jul 15, 2020