Hey Guys!
I wan't to use the ATmega16U4 ATmega32U4 with the arduino boot loader, anyone done this?
I made a large 32 input multiplexed HID device board for it. These chips have a handy USB interface port.
I noticed that in the avr dude includes there is not an io include for these chips...
Hi,
I was looking for something similar, i.e. the ability to use the ATMega32u4 with the Arduino IDE. I know there is Teensy, but what I am talking about is the ability to use the Arduino IDE with an open source bootloader and without requiring two external softwares like the Teensy does.
I think it should be possible to use the CDC Class, AVR109 bootloader that is AVRDUDE compatible from the mythical Dean Camera. The problem is that it needs some more work to actually behave like an Arduino.
When I was testing it, it would work perfectly fine from a direct avrdude command but with the arduino IDE there is something going on that is causing errors. There are some posts on the Adafruit web site but I did not see a real solution yet.
I did not have time to dig more into this but I think there is a great opportunity. Imagine, if this works, you would have native USB speed and reduce significantly component count, complexity and cost of Arduino compatible boards. Or perhaps we are going to get a next generation 'Arduino Due' board!
Maybe we should contact Dean and ask him to help. I think he is a genius, he would find the solution in no time.
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Did anybody solve this problem or has any hints?