I have recently bought an asuro robot kit wth the pre-made IR USB.

When it comes to flashing a file i get about halfway before the Flash program recieves c.c.c.c.t.etc. and i get a message in red that says...

TIMEOUT !
ASURO dead --> FLASH damaged !!

what does this mean and how do i fix the problem?

Note: i have tried the flash versions: v1.1, v1.2, v1.51 and i get the same results as seen above and when i use the v1.4, v1.55 I get a message saying..
failed to open!?!?
already in use?

Any help with these problems would be much appreciated.

I've just built one recently and had similar problems. I found that having the USB IR about 100mm away in a shaded / dark area helped. I still get the occasional c error but as long as there is less than 10 per block then the error correction has worked correctly.

Thanks for the help, it works much better.

However does anyone know what the flash program means by

'Asuro dead.....'

(see first post)

Does it mean my asuro is damaged in some way?