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Uploading sketches over Ethernet

Posted: September 12th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Nanode | Tags: , | 7 Comments »

As you may know, we have been working on a new bootloader which lets you upload sketches over Ethernet. Being able to upload a sketch from anywhere has a bunch of obvious advantages. Here is a video of an early version bootloader which goes and fetches a sketch from a TFTP server and burns it.

Ethernet Bootloader from Wicked Device on Vimeo.

It’s worth emphasizing this is an early alpha build. It currently only works over a local area network, not across the internet, and also requires you to press the reset button on the Nanode**. Still, it seems a good milestone. Next steps are to clean it up a bit, make it a little bit more robust.

** A Nanode is an ethernet enabled Arduino clone available here as a kit.

7 Comments on “Uploading sketches over Ethernet”

  1. 1 Ian Chilton said at 2:04 pm on September 12th, 2011:

    Neat! – good work.

    Do you have plans to make it so you can use a tftp client to push a sketch to the device as well as it downloading one from a tftp server?

    Both would be useful!

  2. 2 Upload firmware over Ethernet - Hack a Day said at 7:02 pm on September 13th, 2011:

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  4. 4 Upload firmware over Ethernet | The Depot of Talk said at 3:04 am on September 14th, 2011:

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  6. 6 Nanode : First Impressions : JarenHavell.com said at 5:13 pm on September 25th, 2011:

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  7. 7 Sketches Over the Net | Digital Fanatics said at 6:13 am on September 30th, 2011:

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