Flashing Software to Rambo Board General - Upload Failure Tip

Software / Firmware
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Hey everyone,

Not sure who this may help but it would have saved me a ton of time if I would have checked this sooner.

If you receive an error similar to below (avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout) , there is a good chance (as many have posted) that your board is not powered. You do need to have the 12V power supply hooked to the board to be able to upload to it.

Sadly my power supply was bad and was not supplying any power to the board, I only found this out once I hooked it up to a voltage tester and was getting 0V out of it at the connectors. This was 100% my fault since I must have shorted it while testing another project, but definitely something else to check for if you have issues.

Hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday!

Error Message Below:

Executing task: platformio run --target upload <

Processing rambo (platform: atmelavr; board: reprap_rambo; framework: arduino)

Verbose mode can be enabled via -v, --verbose option

PLATFORM: Atmel AVR (3.3.0) > RepRap RAMBo
HARDWARE: ATMEGA2560 16MHz, 8KB RAM, 252KB Flash
DEBUG: Current (avr-stub) On-board (avr-stub, simavr)
PACKAGES:

  • framework-arduino-avr 5.1.0
  • tool-avrdude 1.60300.200527 (6.3.0)
  • toolchain-atmelavr 1.70300.191015 (7.3.0)
    Converting Marlin.ino

LDF Modes: Finder ~ chain, Compatibility ~ soft
Found 6 compatible libraries
Scanning dependencies…
Dependency Graph
|-- 0.4.5
| |-- 1.0
| |-- 1.0
|-- 1.0
|-- 1.0
Building in release mode
Checking size .pio/build/rambo/firmware.elf
Advanced Memory Usage is available via “PlatformIO Home > Project Inspect”
RAM: [====== ] 59.0% (used 4834 bytes from 8192 bytes)
Flash: [==== ] 42.4% (used 109514 bytes from 258048 bytes)
Configuring upload protocol…
AVAILABLE: wiring
CURRENT: upload_protocol = wiring
Looking for upload port…
Auto-detected: /dev/cu.usbmodem14201
Uploading .pio/build/rambo/firmware.hex
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer

avrdude done. Thank you.

*** [upload] Error 1
========================================= [FAILED] Took 36.84 seconds =========================================

Environment Status Duration

rambo FAILED 00:00:36.843
==================================== 1 failed, 0 succeeded in 00:00:36.843 ====================================
The terminal process “platformio ‘run’, ‘–target’, ‘upload’” terminated with exit code: 1.

Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

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Agreed. That is the first thing I suggest when you get that error.

I should point out though that the Rambo’s can be flashed with xloader if you already have a premade bin (like the ones from MarlinBuilder releases). It won’t fix the bad power supply, but it is a lot simpler.