SmartieParts Programmer Board

[polanskiman]

Hello everyone,

I'm new here so please be tolerant

Here is the deal. I just purchased the solderless SmartieParts Programmer Board and as the name supposedly says there is no need for an additional programmer like one of those that you buy on ebay. However I noticed that on the wiki page http://openrcforums.com/wiki/index.php/Flashing_your_9x of this forum explaining how to flash the 9X to ER9x they do imply (specially at the end of the page at the Quick Check List section) that you need to purchase a programmer. There even is a link for a Programmer to ebay. So I'm confused. Please people, enlighten me.

Thank you.

[ShowMaster]

Yes the SP board is all you need if you don't want to solder.
It's solder less if you have a v2 9x board or if a V1 9x board one carefully soldered wire has to be added. More on that if you do have a 9v v1 board. Good info on that on the SP site.
SM
9x version info
http://www.smartieparts.com/shop/index. ... =page&id=8

[Crucial]

The SP board *is* the programmer. The check list says to make sure you bought your programmer and you did when you bought the SP board!

[polanskiman]

Thanks guys,

the check list says as follows:

1. Done your hardware modification (Smartieparts or Hard wired Method?)

2. Purchased your programmer?

3. Got your Latest Stable Version of ER9x?

4. - Choose your flavour of Eeprom Editor?

So I assumed that the first point was already the SP board while point two an independent programmer. It can be confusing...

Anyhow, then I bought the usb programmer for nothing :p

[phatbutt1]

Thanks for posting the original question, I was struggling with understanding if I needed a separate programmer also (in addition to the smartieparts board).