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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Newbee Guide - DuinoMite Mega for Win XP
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| DuinoMiteMegaAn Senior Member  Joined: 17/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 231 |
Newbee Guide for the DuinoMite Mega for Windows XP. Experience users please skip these instructions. Since the DuinoMite User Guide is not completed yet (work in progress) then these instructions will get you started. Steps #1. Obtain a mini USB cable and plug it into your PC and the other end into the DuinoMite Mega. The red LED power will turn on along with the yellow LED which indicates the video sync and PIC32 CPU chip is good. The green LED indicates SD card activity. The XP system will try to find the Olimex driver and it will / should fail. #2. Download files from the Olimex website under Duino Mega "software" the "Duinomite drivers for virutal com port console" Unzipped it and store it in a folder that can be easily remembered. http://www.olimex.com/dev/index.html #3. Next, under control panel, system, hardware, device manager go to the named device "Duinomite" and update its driver to point to the "files" unzipped in step 2. After the driver installation is complete the new port number will show up for the Duinomite under [Ports - COM & LPT] Please take note of this port number! #4. Obtain a PS2 keyboard, VGA monitor or composite monitor (PAL or NTSC) and power down the DuinoMite to install these devices. Then power up the DuinoMite again and wait for the command prompt ">" You might need to press the on-board reset switch. You are finished! 
Obtain the MaxiMite MMBasic Quick Reference (By Crackerjack) and the MaxiMite User Manual to get you started until the Olimex DuinoMite Mega User Manual is completed. Please Note: There are hardware, software and firmware differences between the MaxiMite and the DuinoMite Mega! #5. Another option you can use, to program the DuinoMite, is using the communication port number in step 3 with a terminal program on a PC via USB cable. I used the convenient terminal program "MMIDE" downloaded from the CircuitGizmos topic. Search forum for MMIDE. My DuinoMite Mega "out of the box" experience was explosive! - everything worked the first time except the PS2 keyboard, which I had to reconnect several times to make it work. I believe there was some residue on the PS2 connection pins. Hope this helps - Newbees! 
BTW ... Olimex - thanks for a well engineered PIC32 board! |
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Bryan1 Guru  Joined: 22/02/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1344 |
The one thing I found with DM, in order to get it into boot mode BOTH push buttons had to be pushed down. Now I had fun trying to get the USB boot loader exe file to startup and Don has put the 2 required DLL's on his blog in the file download section. In XP I found COM3 was the USB serial port and MMIDE picked it up. Also I found if MMIDE doesn't pickup the port then cycle the power to the DM then it should be there. Cheers Bryan |
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| DuinoMiteMegaAn Senior Member Joined: 17/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 231 |
In XP I found COM3 was the USB serial port
That is not always the case. It is what "other devices" you have on your PC that determines what comm. port is auto selected! (mine was port 17)
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donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1313 |
Have taken the liberty of posting this to my blog at: http://www.themaximitecomputer.com/newbee-guide-for-the-duin omite-mega-for-windows-xp/ And thank you very much for going to the trouble Andy. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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