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Add mbed disk programmer option

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#107 opened on Mar 2, 2017

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Description

During #HackIllinois2017 @jacobrosenthal observed many issues with Windows and Zadig.

Need to explore adding a option to upload using the mbed disk using a batch file (windows) and shell script (Linux/Mac).

Rough set of steps needed:

  1. Build .hex file and merge soft device. If soft device is not erased during upload we can skip the merge step.
  2. Detect mbed drive location via checking drives for a MBED.htm file
  3. Copy file to mbed disk drive.

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Research direction
Investigate how to detect an mbed drive by checking for a MBED.htm file and copy a merged .hex file to it using batch scripts on Windows and shell scripts on Linux/Mac.
Tech stack
c
Domain
embedded iot
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
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70