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Hello All,

If someone were wanting to build a soluion using readily available and cost efffective Arduino hardware, but wanted to protect the sketch code...  Is it possible to distribute the compiled program to a person and maybe use a program written in something like C# to move the compiled program onto the arduino board? 

This is one of the things I like about the mbed environment....  But it would be nice if I can do the same thing with Arduino devices...

I am not at all an expert at anything related to bootloaders etc... So please dummy down your responses in simple terms as much as possible.

Thank You

Tim

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Yes.

Use something like avrdude, or an ICSP, or both, maybe. I've used avrdude from my computer over the USB connection. I don't know what software you'd use for ICSP -- multiple options are possible.

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Thank You Justed,

 I ended up using AVRDUDE launched from the C# app and passed the command line needed to load the HEX file..  It works pretty nicely...

Next thing is to try and see if I can extract the SERIAL ID from the USB on the Arduino...  I'm looking for a UID I can pull from the board...

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