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Update wiki for new Ploopy Lefty Classics shipping with rev 1.005 #26

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dongle opened this issue Oct 24, 2021 · 9 comments
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Update wiki for new Ploopy Lefty Classics shipping with rev 1.005 #26

dongle opened this issue Oct 24, 2021 · 9 comments

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@dongle
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dongle commented Oct 24, 2021

Thank you for all of your work making a durable, reparable, customizable, libre trackball. I'm absolutely loving my Ploopy Classic Left-handed trackball, but I almost flashed it according to the wiki using the rev1 configuration before remembering that the black PCBs you showcased on reddit had rev 1.005 printed on them. It would be helpful to put a new caveat in the wiki for that and mention that you can assign a reset key in via to try to recover in the event of a mistake. I'd do it myself as a PR but I figure you have better info re: which Lefties shipped with which revision and if there are tricks to tell them apart without opening up the Ploopy.

@McSinyx
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McSinyx commented Jun 7, 2022

I made the mistake of flashing the rev1 drag_scroll, and even sillier, with drag scroll on at boot. Is there any way to enter the bootloader now? Holding the left-most button (or any other one) while plugging in doesn't work anymore 😭

@keyboard-magpie
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I made the mistake of flashing the rev1 drag_scroll, and even sillier, with drag scroll on at boot. Is there any way to enter the bootloader now? Holding the left-most button (or any other one) while plugging in doesn't work anymore 😭

What revision of ploopy do you have? You'll need to get access to the PCB to be able to use a hardware means to get into bootloader.

@McSinyx
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McSinyx commented Jun 7, 2022

What revision of ploopy do you have?

The PCB say L1.005.

You'll need to get access to the PCB
to be able to use a hardware means to get into bootloader.

Thanks, could you please elaborate on this?

@keyboard-magpie
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What revision of ploopy do you have?

The PCB say L1.005.

You'll need to get access to the PCB

to be able to use a hardware means to get into bootloader.

Thanks, could you please elaborate on this?

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On the corner of the pcb near the MCU there are these holes you can bridge with tweezers whilst plugged in, to
Get to bootloader mode.

@McSinyx
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McSinyx commented Jun 7, 2022

Unfortunately the new lefty PCB doesn't have that: https://redd.it/purfmg

I tried bridging pairs near the XY mark both during and after plugging in and neither worked. The new lefty semantic haven't seemed to be uploaded either.

@keyboard-magpie
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I'll wait for crop octagon to chime in with the correct answer, but the brute force way may be to short (carefully!) the ground and reset pins on the atmega: image

@McSinyx
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McSinyx commented Jun 8, 2022

Thanks, what's the worst thing that can go wrong while trying to short those pins?

@gbrnt
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gbrnt commented Jun 8, 2022

Well they have VCC in between, so there's a possibility of shorting GND to VCC, which might kill the voltage regulator. It's also probably possible to kill the chip.

I'd recommend trying emailing "contact (at) ploopy [dot] co" if you haven't already, they might not have seen this issue.

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McSinyx commented Sep 19, 2022 via email

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