[Microbit-Python] developer.mbed.org usernames

[Jonathan Austin]

On 15 Jul 2015, at 15:20, David Whale <david at thinkingbinaries.com> wrote:

> My mbed user name is whaleygeek, as per my twitter handle :)
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> Mark Joyce gave me access to some of the mbed stuff earlier so that I could re-flash my broken device, but I don't know what scope this covers and if there are additional areas I don't have access to yet.
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> Interestingly I discovered by selotaping my microbit to a frying pan (don't ask!) that if you hold the system button while inserting the USB, it enters bootloader mode and you have to reflash it to recover it. Now that's got to be the silliest way of discovering bootloader mode ever!!!

This sounds like a bug!

If you go into boot loader mode, you should just be able to unplug/replug without the
reset button held down and we'll recover. Can you confirm that this wasn't the case?

J
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> There is an image file on the mbed microbit site that you can re-flash if you do this by accident like I did, but that presumes you have a spare frying pan to hand, of course.
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> David
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> ___________________________________________________________
> David Whale, B.Sc (Hons), MIET
> Software Engineer and IET Schools Liaison Officer, Essex
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> email:  dwhale at theiet.org
> twitter: @whaleygeek
> blog:  blog.whaleygeek.co.uk
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> Co-author of the new book "Adventures in Minecraft" - lets get kids coding!
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> On 15 July 2015 at 13:47, Michael <sparks.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe Finney wrote:
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> > Go to https://developer.mbed.org/
> > Create an account.
> > E-mail me with your name and mbed username.
> > I’ll arrange for access (I don’t hold the keys to the group at the mo).
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> My mbed username is sparkslabs. (same as github :)
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> Michael.
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