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Inspired by an example question before beta, can I make the Leonardo bootloader take less that 8 seconds to run? It is very slow and I want to speed it up somehow.

Ricardo
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Detailed instructions on how to shorten the bootloader time of Leonardo, etc. are explained here (as stated by Chris Stratton).

The crux of the matter was to redefine the timeout period,

/* ./arduino/hardware/arduino/bootloaders/caterina/Caterina.c */
#define TIMEOUT_PERIOD 8000

to a lower value.

However, I do not have such issues with Leonardo. It boots very fast. So this issue depends on your environment.

There is also Optiboot, an alternative bootloader that really boots faster.

timemage
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