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FWIW, FPGAs do something similar -- they can literally reconfigure their *hardware* while running, if designed properly. Pretty cool stuff. This would open students' worlds into this concept.

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That's really odd... I've programmed many AVR uCs, and avrdude usually works, provided that the fuses didn't get horked up somehow. (Then you HAVE to do an ISP connection, or worse, a dedicated chip programmer). Just so we can be sure we're not missing something that seems obvious to you, but isn't ...

Bastian: See this thread: http://forum.plumgeek.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=7897 But the bottom line is I got it work with the Arduino IDE, with these settings in the pull-down menus: Board: "Arduino Pro or Pro Mini" Processor: "ATMega328 (3.3V, 8Hz)" Programmer: "ArduinoIS...

To quote Bastian: Since it's not that easy to replace the micro-sd card of spirit... Already done it. Twice. Once to start from scratch with a Raspbian stretch version from RasPi (dated 11-29-17) instead of jessie, and another time to fix something dumb I did in the /boot/ partition. Tweezers are yo...

Any python module that *depends* on executing in virtualenv is dubious... I'm a bit leary of using that one.

What package is that? I'd love to take a look at it, I might be able to decouple the two...

Is virtualenv really necessary? It seems like a nice way to swap between python configurations between projects, but for an embedded system, it would seem like it's one less layer of abstraction/confusion for less savvy users. I've got my Spirit Rover configured without it... but I'm wondering why y...

Again, seconded. Being able to program the Arduino from the on-board PI via SPI would be awesome. That way we could treat the Pi as a development workstation when needed -- no external computer necessary, if you plug in an HDMI cable and have a bluetooth keyboard/mouse configured to use with the Pi....

Seconded. Should be in an appendix to documentation. Spec sheets and manufacturer's docs are the engineer's "foundation" of information for a design, even when using something they didn't build.

I'm debugging the same problem. I hope to figure it out this weekend.

Yeah, they're pretty nice. Now that I can program the AVR directly, I'm starting to play with them, too. You can really tell when the camera is on (in this case, reading 640x480 @ 30fps, streaming to the windowing system). See my blogpost with the plot of the power time series... when the camera is ...