[Microbit-Python] Repl not echoing back

[Naomi Ceder]

Yep, those suggestions make sense. I particularly like the Michelle idea.
:-)

Since Mary is functioning in all other respects I'll keep her here for
hacking until the others safely arrive.

Cheers,
Naomi

On 13 December 2015 at 03:23, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Poor old Mary micro:bit... my (wife) Mary is going to be heartbroken
> that her namesake has a bad case of the collywobbles.
>
> Here's what I suggest:
>
> * We "retire" Mary - can you post her back to me and I'll make sure it
> gets to Jonny at ARM who'll be interested in such hardware failures?
>
> * We "promote" one of the new boards heading in your direction to the
> world tour. Given this is a US based series of events I propose we name
> the new micro:bit in honour of the FLOTUS: "Michelle micro:bit". :-P
>
> * Naomi, can you write up how Mary got "sick" and ping me a PR for the
> website? I'll add a note to explain the appearance of Michelle and then
> we can let the tour continue.
>
> Sound like a plan?
>
> N.
>
> On 13/12/15 01:33, Naomi Ceder wrote:
> > Hi Carol,
> >
> > I just tried picocom with exactly the same results - I'm still on
> > yosemite, but getting the same behaviour on 5 terminal programs and two
> > different OS's I'm going to say the issue is the device at this point.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Naomi
> >
> >
> > On 12 December 2015 at 17:27, Carol Willing
> > <willingc at willingconsulting.com <mailto:willingc at willingconsulting.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Naomi,
> >
> >     Perhaps a shot in the dark, did you try picocom?  picocom
> >     /dev/ttyACM0 -b 115200  Replacing with the correct port. I've used
> >     with the Mac Pro. I'm still running Yosemite. Are you on El Capitan?
> >
> >     You could try getting rid of any cruft of old USB /dev/tty files.
> >
> >
> >     Damien, Does the microbit have a hard reset by pulling a GPIO pin
> low?
> >
> >
> >>     Naomi Ceder <mailto:naomi.ceder at gmail.com>
> >>     December 11, 2015 at 7:37 PM
> >>     Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>     I'm having a very weird issue with Mary the micro:bit.
> >>
> >>     It had been working fine... until I was about to demo before the
> >>     Chicago Python group (ChiPy) last night.
> >>
> >>     Then suddenly the repl wouldn't work. That is, I could apparently
> >>     connect, I could type commands in, the LED on the microbit would
> >>     flash as normal, but nothing was echoed back. I could put scripts
> >>     on the flash and the would run normally, but after trying 3
> >>     different terminal programs (all of which had worked before),
> >>     still no joy.
> >>
> >>     Tonight I've been experimenting more and I can confirm that the
> >>     commands I'm entering do get to the microbit and are executed as
> >>     normal. Even arrowing up and tab completion are working normally,
> >>     but nothing gets sent back to my screen.
> >>
> >>     I've mainly kept the comm settings at what worked well before
> >>     115200, N-8-1 and I might add that I've used 2 or 3 different
> >>     versions of the firmware with the same reaction, two different USB
> >>     cables, a lot of swearing, and I'm sort of at wit's end.
> >>
> >>     Has anyone else encountered this? Is there something obvious that
> >>     I'm missing? Or something mysterious that I need to know? Or is it
> >>     just a wonky micro:bit. I honestly didn't do a thing to it from
> >>     when it worked fine until when it didn't, and it strikes me as a
> >>     bit odd that it will do everything as before, EXCEPT echo the
> >>     characters back to the terminal.
> >>
> >>     Halp?
> >>
> >>     Thanks,
> >>     Naomi
> >>
> >>
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