I have a SparkFun servo trigger and a tiny avr programmer. I was simply trying to change the mode, and followed along a github read me that was a bit complicated for me, someone who has minimal experience, to follow. Somewhere along the way I managed to completely clear the device rather than program it and now it doesn’t work at all.

I am using AVR dude on Mac. I’ll link the github, but can anyone help me understand how to use the repo to get a hex file given the .c file and a makefile. And how to get the mode changed and the device back up and running?

Thank y’all!

 

It's important to know that your setup is correct. If you followed along with the Github instructions then the paragraph marked "Testing" should have produced positive results. If not you have a communications/programming tool problem.

But the Github reference is about the communication/flashing tools - command line only tools at that. (It looks like they're really OLD, too!) AVR Studio is probably your best bet. By setting up a project in AVR Studio you can compile the C source into a .HEX binary suitable for downloading to your target hardware.

There are certainly ways to do compile, assemble, and then flash you device using only command line tools in macOS - I've also done it on a Mac and it's not hard. But for beginners there's a wealth of experience to be gained from an IDE like AVR Studio.

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/microchip-studio

-T. Hurtado