Clone tool
Make another one from the one you have.
A working pedal can write a copy of itself to a blank board. Your browser does the flashing over USB — no toolchain, no command line, nothing to install.
Before you start
- This copies an existing pedal. It is not a first-time install — it needs an image from a pedal that already works. To build one from scratch, seethe reference build.
- Chrome or Edge on a desktop. Flashing uses the Web Serial API, which Firefox and Safari do not implement. The tool detects this and says so rather than failing halfway.
- You need a USB cable that carries data. Plenty of charging cables do not.
How it works
Download an image from the working pedal
Open its web page, go to Advanced, and choose Download device image. You get a
pedal-clone.binof about 4 MB.Wi-Fi passwords, licence state and logs are blanked out of the image while it streams, so the file carries none of them. Nothing on the source pedal is modified.
Put the blank board into bootloader mode
Hold BOOT, tap RESET — or unplug and replug USB while still holding BOOT — then let go. The board is now waiting for a serial connection.
Flash it
Open the tool, pick the
.bin, click Connect and choose the board's serial port, then Erase & Flash. It reboots into the cloned image when it finishes.Set up its network
The clone has no Wi-Fi credentials, so it comes up as its own access point. Join it and enter your network details, exactly like a new build.
Why this exists
Two reasons. The dull one: a band with a spare board can make a backup pedal on the way to a gig without a laptop full of build tools.
The one that matters more: it means your pedal is not dependent on us. The device carries everything needed to reproduce itself, so the thing you built keeps working — and keeps being reproducible — regardless of what happens to this website.