Of course I could replace the board for $30-$40, or buy tag hardware and waste many hours learning how to set up and use that, but at the end of the day I’d be another 5-10 hours in to getting an ancient, slow, and not very good 3d printer working.
So I did what my years of experience have told me to do - try the same steps again after a good night’s sleep!
I did everything from scratch the same way I did it 10-20 times yesterday, but this time it worked!
Clearly I screwed something up each time yesterday, but Hallelujah! Where’s the Tylenol?
At the end of the day I wasn’t going to buy JTAG hardware or spend 5-10 hours on this board, when a new one is $30-$0, and the printer is probably not worth much more than $75.
Still hoping for a new 3dp for my birthday next week, but if the wife winds up picking something else for me, at least I’ll still have this!