The Problem
I wanted to update my laser cutter. Therefore i choose to use the newest version of GRBL (version 1.1f) into the controller. Since I did not want to recompile the whole thing from scratch, I decided to download the lates version and just flash it into a new Arduino nano clone.
The big question was: How to do it ?
The Solution
The simplest solution was to download the hex file to my desktop and to utilize avrdude (which is also used from within the arduino ide to upload compiled code to the controller).
avrdude: Version 6.3, compiled on Jan 17 2017 at 06:01:25
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch
System wide configuration file is "./etc/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/home/gue/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping
Using Port : /dev/ttyUSB0
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 57600
AVR Part : ATmega328P
Chip Erase delay : 9000 us
PAGEL : PD7
BS2 : PC2
RESET disposition : dedicated
RETRY pulse : SCK
serial program mode : yes
parallel program mode : yes
Timeout : 200
StabDelay : 100
CmdexeDelay : 25
SyncLoops : 32
ByteDelay : 0
PollIndex : 3
PollValue : 0x53
Memory Detail :
Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack
----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff
flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
Programmer Type : Arduino
Description : Arduino
Hardware Version: 2
Firmware Version: 1.16
Vtarget : 0.0 V
Varef : 0.0 V
Oscillator : Off
SCK period : 0.1 us
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.01s
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f (probably m328p)
avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as 0
avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as 0
avrdude: NOTE: "flash" memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: reading input file "/home/gue/Desktop/grbl_v1.1f.20170801.hex"
avrdude: writing flash (30492 bytes):
Writing | ################################################## | 100% 15.22s
avrdude: 30492 bytes of flash written
avrdude: verifying flash memory against /home/gue/Desktop/grbl_v1.1f.20170801.hex:
avrdude: load data flash data from input file /home/gue/Desktop/grbl_v1.1f.20170801.hex:
avrdude: input file /home/gue/Desktop/grbl_v1.1f.20170801.hex contains 30492 bytes
avrdude: reading on-chip flash data:
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 12.84s
avrdude: verifying ...
avrdude: 30492 bytes of flash verified
avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as 0
avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as 0
avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK (E:00, H:00, L:00)
avrdude done. Thank you.
To verify the result i fired up putty and i was welcomed with the version string
Thats it !