To those that have concerned over the utility of my IDE add-on’s utility, I would like to follow up and give an example of production board batch testing at a very simple level. A simple pogo (spring loaded probe) jig is used to only power and access essential peripherals of a target board, and among other things upload a fixed test sketch to ensure basic functionality of the board. Since this is done repeatedly, it’s desirable to have a more automated way of doing this over and over again to save time. I show how we can edit some IDE settings for a target board to skip verification, and also how you can use avrdude to quickly upload sketches without the IDE’s compilation and optimizations overhead. The same would apply for bossa for SAMD or whatever upload tool your target board might be using). Let me know your thoughts and suggestions!
As an update – I’ve always just used avrdude for quick uploads but a very worthy mention suggested by a viewer is using avrdudeSS which is a very nice GUI for avrdude, check it out!