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Re: HELP! NXT brick flash now read-only!!
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 5 Feb 2007 21:30:51 GMT
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Juergen Stuber <(juergen@)stopspam(jstuber.net)>
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Hi Nathan,

Nathan Anderson <nathan@anderson-net.com> writes:
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Juergen Stuber wrote:

actually for the adventurous hardware hacker
it might be possible to revive it using the ERASE pin.

Fortunately, it looks like Atmel provided a back-door in hardware to reset
it.  I (carefully) opened up the NXT brick and (equally as carefully)
shorted VCC_OUT (pin 8) with ERASE (pin 55), which LEGO thoughtfully
traced to a nice open pad (J10)! :-)  IIRC, this had to be done and held
steadily in place before applying power.

clever solution.
I actually wondered how to do the debouncing,
to get the required (in bold face!) pulse of at least 50ms.

Voila, as they say: I was greeted with the warm sound of
steady clicking from the tiny NXT speaker.

:-)


Jürgen

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  Re: HELP! NXT brick flash now read-only!!
 
(...) Juergen et al., Good news, everyone! The nightmare is over. :-) And I got to learn a few things in the process, too! Setting the security bit must have been what I did, although I don't specifically recall it...I do remember that, before I (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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