HELP! Can't Program Robot Controller - LED stays on.

[sheyna]

when we download the program for the camera from easyc the frc robot controller never comes out of programming state. the programming led constantly blinks orange. we looked for a code error and to see if we hooked it up wrong but we can't find the problem.

~sheyna

[Leav]

First, i would change the title to something like "Can't Program Robot Controller - LED stuck" that will generate a much higher read rate.

Have you downloaded the latest IFI_Loader?
are you using the latest C18 compiler?
latest MpLab?

-Leav

[Avarik]

This happened to me a few times. The only way I managed to fix it was just to redownload the code again, even if you haven't changed anything.

[devicenull]

http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/other/FIRST_Guidelines,_Tips,_&_Good_Practices_Rev_B.pdf

Check out the bottom of page 29 there. It won't hurt the controller in any way, so it might be a good thing to try.