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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I had that happen with embedded programming when you forget to flush the eeprom after changing your saved values.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

On small computers like Arduino there is a very small memory called eeprom that stays when powered off. It saves ultra low level data (at the bit and byte level) if you don’t “format” after changing what is being saved where it then tries to read gibberish and things go bonk.

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