jeffwhitfield
Well-known member
Finally finished my FV-1 Development pedal. The name made me think about Formula 1 racing thus the inspiration for the design.
Had some issues getting this thing to connect with my Mac. I have a new MacBook Pro with the new M1 chip so none of the usual drivers would work. Plus, with Parallels Desktop, the only version of Windows I can install is Windows 11 for RISC processors...so, again, no bueno for any drivers that will work. Ended up getting a cheap Windows 10 laptop with an Intel processor. With a little trial and error, I found some drivers that work.
After verifying USB connectivity, it was just a matter of getting the EEPROM burned with a working program. Bit of a learning curve with that one. Got a few programs and loaded one via the SpinIDE and exported out a HEX file. After converting it to a BIN and burning it with EsProgrammer, everything came together and worked.
Only thing I'm wondering is if there are alternatives to EsProgrammer and the executable responsible for converting HEX files.
Had some issues getting this thing to connect with my Mac. I have a new MacBook Pro with the new M1 chip so none of the usual drivers would work. Plus, with Parallels Desktop, the only version of Windows I can install is Windows 11 for RISC processors...so, again, no bueno for any drivers that will work. Ended up getting a cheap Windows 10 laptop with an Intel processor. With a little trial and error, I found some drivers that work.
After verifying USB connectivity, it was just a matter of getting the EEPROM burned with a working program. Bit of a learning curve with that one. Got a few programs and loaded one via the SpinIDE and exported out a HEX file. After converting it to a BIN and burning it with EsProgrammer, everything came together and worked.
Only thing I'm wondering is if there are alternatives to EsProgrammer and the executable responsible for converting HEX files.
