LUFA for Adafruit ATmega32u4 Breakout Board
LUFA is pretty amazing. If you’re into that kind of thing, you can make your USB-capable AVR microcontroller be 100 virtual serial ports, all communicating with other, all at once. I’m not sure why it took me a few hours to get even one virtual port to appear, but once I followed my own steps to restore my ‘32u4 breakout board to factory-fresh condition, it worked nicely. Here are my notes:
To build any or all of the whole tree, get the source and then
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make MCU=atmega32u4 F_CPU=16000000 BOARD=ADAFRUITU4 FLASH_SIZE_KB=32 BOOT_SECTION_SIZE_KB=4
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You’ll get various errors about missing joysticks, buttons, and ADC channels, and you’ll have to hack and slash the code to pretend your board has a joystick (I used rand() % 4 to simulate someone flipping around the joystick wildly) or whatever else is missing. You might decide to give up and build just one or two sub-projects.To load a demo or project onto your board, cd into the right directory and
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make program MCU=atmega32u4 AVRDUDE_PROGRAMMER=avr109 AVRDUDE_PORT=/dev/wherever_your_board_shows_up
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You’ll need to reset your board so the bootloader is running during this step.On my machine (a Mac), I kept System Information open to the USB section, and kept hitting command-R to see what my computer thought was attached to it.
I’m fiddling with LUFA to get ready for the AVR programmer’s arrival in a week or so. I don’t expect to have ported an ISP by then, but at least I can have a simple CDC serial port saying “hello, world!”