Tag: platformio

ESP32-C6 platformio fail

A few months ago, I wrote about my disappointing experience trying to program a Nordic nRF52840 dongle with PlatformIO. The conclusion was clear: abandon PlatformIO and use native toolchains. Yet here I am again, foolishly thinking "maybe this time will be different" with the new…

Programming Nordics nRF52840 dongle

Buying a Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 Dongle made me very disappointed. I falsely thought it is a nice little USB2.0 pluggable board to get into low power Bluetooth enabled development but the more I dug into it, the more I found it is almost impossible to get any useful value o…

Fix platformio avrdude input/output error

I have get to work on the very low priority side project with the codename bee weighter yesterday. It is not meant to weight the actual bees, but instead their entire house to determine if it is a full of honey that could be extracted. However, I got greatly slowed down by the un…