Lyonel’s Bridge: How to DeBrick Your Buchla for less than 100 Bucks!

Even if you are a total newb with this stuff, you can debug your own modules without having to send them back & forth to BUSA or future service centers. Pays for itself with one round trip.

Chapter Highlights:
00:00 Start
00:16 Lyonel's Bridge World Permiere!
00:30 How to install the flat cable
01:26 Required Hardware List
01:56 Required Software Assets (and how to not buy Windows!)
02:28 Hex Code & Silabs Flash Utility. What these things do.
03:20 Installing Silabs Flash Utility
04:58 Connecting Lyonel's Bridge
05:30 Two connectors on each 223e. Which one to use?
07:00 Connected and ready to go! Launching Flash Utility.
09:16 Intentionally erasing a module's brain
09:28 Be sure to reconnect
09:59 Bringing a bricked module back to life
10:03 Code Loader Loader cl_fixer.hex Not Banked
11:01 Code Loader _main.hex Common+BANK3
12:23 Merry Christmas!!!
12:54 Firmware card
14:12 Success! Finito!
14:35 Debricking the Arpeggiator section: Same process, different code and connector

Links:

Buchla Code Loader Loaders and Code Loaders. Scroll down a bit over 1/2 way down the page
https://web.archive.org/web/201306112...

Silabs Flash Utility:
https://www.silabs.com/products/devel...

Silabs Debugger. Buy one or more for the family.
$35 USD from Silabs: https://www.silabs.com/development-to...
31€ (at time of writing) from Mouser in Europe: https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/S...

Google.docs detailing the process in this video. This was done by Muff Wiggler Forumite "Company of Quail"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwJJ...