Using Serial.print bricks Uno board ?
Received an Uno board today. (Never worked with Arduino before, however have worked with the 168 and 328 chips previously in other environments.)
Wrote a simple program using the IDE. Host system is Linux (Linux Basalt 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686.PAE)
Using Serial.print appears to brick the Uno.
The problem is described in detail in the following posts (I won't repeat the details here, my problem is exactly the same as described in these posts).
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Sorry - no links, forum won't allow me to upload them.
At this point the Uno appears useless, before I toss it in the trash can anyone with experience on the Uno board help the the following questions?
1. Confirm that using Serial.print in a program bricks the Uno. That is, serial communication between the Uno and computer using USB cannot be used, and the serial monitor in the IDE cannot be used. (or any other serial monitor such as minicom.)
2. Is there any method to 'unbrick' the Uno?
3. Is there any method to make Serial.print work on the Uno (assuming it can be unbricked)?
If using Serial.print bricks the Uno this is a catastrophic limitation of the Uno and renders it useless for development.