Uploading sketches over Ethernet

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.