How to Back Up Atmel ESC Firmware

If you have an Atmel ESC with unlocked firmware this is how you can back it up. This works on all most Atmel based ESCs that do not have readout protection enabled such as BlueSeries, ZTW, etc. Atmel ESC compatible with SimonK or BLHeli WARNING: Attempting this on a protected firmware everything will look fine but the ATmega sends garbage data. Look at flash.txt in a text editor and make sure there are no long repeating strings in the beginning of the file. Attempting to write this back to the ESC will overwrite the actual firmware which is unfortunately not quite as easy to extract. Don't forget to check out my PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/The_Lightning_Stalker Twitter: @lgtngstk Here are links to the tools you will need: http://blog.zakkemble.co.uk/avrdudess-a-gui-for-avrdude/ https://hobbyking.com/en_us/atmel-atmega-socket-firmware-flashing-tool.html http://amzn.to/2E4NbgL