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2010-04-17: Saturday.

Mini lie-in; up & off to collect cable delivery I missed yestreday from the DHL centre. Back home, made up some cables, got everything connected up. Struggled with a mess of un-packaged Java software, urk.
Got strange errors left and right:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0xff avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0xf5 Eventually discovered that means that (dumbly) I had forgotten that in the absence of any better silk-screen indication a square solder-pad indicates pin-1, and my USB->TTL connector had the wrong polarity; bingo - a programmed device.
Out in the evening for dinner with Laura & Creighton, most relaxing and pleasant.

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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)