Flash

Flash:

I hope those frustrated with a board that won't flash will find the following useful.

What do you do if you want to flash a new firmware in to an Arduino-based printer but the blasted thing won't take and you've done the usual things like:
-Making sure you have the correct drivers installed
-Making sure you have your programming device / software configured properly
-Is the cable plugged in properly, did you try another one?
-Did you try flashing from another computer / OS version?
-If your board supports it did you try setting it for power over USB first?

...and yet the blasted thing still won't flash!

It seems this not an uncommon problem, especially for those of us with Trigorilla boards, and possibly other ATMega-based systems.

There's one last thing to try before you go buying another board - re-flash the boot-loader and then have another go at flashing your firmware.

When you flash a firmware to an Arduino-based system (usually over USB) the micro c