[ot][spam][crazy] The Trials of Controlling a Programmer

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I thought I saw the clk voltage go to zero after repowering the board, and
began diagnosing based on this.

However, I'm unable to reproduce the behavior.

I downloaded the main firmware off the device and used avrdude to verify
the resulting binary was identical to what I had uploaded.

It also has serial firmware, separate from the mcu firmware.

The clk pin presently appears to go high as soon as the board is powered. I
checked the source and that is correct. When I disabled it, I found the pin
to oscillate on its own, while the board was theoretically waiting for
instructions from the computer.

I checked my test code and it looks right enough:
CLK_DDR |= _BV(CLK); // output on pin
CLK_PORT &= ~_BV(CLK); // set it low

I added a while(1); after those lines and the clock stays low correctly.

Looks like there's something else the chip does that my test code didn't
account for.

I commented out all code in the run loop after the debug terminal. The pin
stays low on boot now, but oscillates after the voltage test.

Gotta just spend some time troubleshooting and learning it.
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