Pololu USB AVR Programmer in Ubuntu without root

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Hello,

The instructions in pololu.com/docs/0J51/all#4 for setting up the Pololu USB AVR Programmer in Ubuntu Linux are pretty good, but I want to add one detail.

When I tried to program with “make program”, I got a “this device is busy” error. I needed “sudo make program”. However it gets annoying really fast to type my password every time I want to program.

I created a udev rule to allow programming without a password.

Create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-pololu-programmer.rules and put in it:
SUBSYSTEMS==“usb”, ATTRS{idVendor}==“1ffb”, ATTRS{idProduct}==“0081”, GROUP=“plugdev”, MODE=“0666”

Run “sudo restart udev” and next time you plug in the programmer you should be able to program simply with “make program”

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Hello. Thank you very much for sharing this tip with us. In the past when I was working on our Linux support for the programmer and using Ubuntu, I do not recall needing a udev rule, but it is possible that things have changed. What version of Ubuntu do you have?

–David