Typically refers to a specific type of device which allows raw serial communication with a PC via USB.
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Atmega16u2 Serial to USB adaptors [duplicate]
The best part of Atmega16u2 is that, it can be act as a USB-HID device after flashing the keyboard firmware (hex file) in it using DFU mode. In Arduino Uno this can be achieved but but due to UNO ...
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Upload sketch to Atmel328 with FTDI
i have problem with FTDI programmer or Parts or Scheme or i dont know. Here is my scheme how it look and PCB.
What im getting from Arduino IDE is ... stk500_getsync() and i cannot upload sketch with ...
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Arduino Pro Mini Serial Monitor garbage
This is my first post. I hope that I am posting in the right section of the forum. Otherwise, could an admin move this topic to the appropriate section please?
Board : Arduino Pro Mini 3.3V 8MHz
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Capacitors in DC circuits
I have a question about capacitors in DC (digital) circuits. The picture below is an edited schematic of the Arduino Uno R3.
The DTR line is connected to the reset input of the Atmega328 by a 0.1uF ...
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FTDI Breakout with additional ISP connector
TL;DR - Can the six yellow ISP pins be used as a normal ISP?
The usual USB-TTL FTDI breakout board looks like this:
Recently, I came across a variant of the board shown below. However, what are the ...
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How does Arduino IDE for OSX work without drivers?
My Arduino IDE works right out of the box without me having to install any USB to UART drivers. I know the Atmega16U2 on the UNO is acting as UART bridge, but this means that OSX recognizes it on a ...
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Chinese CH340 Arduino Uno - Burning stand allone chip
I followed regular tutorial and I was able to burn boot-loader on my standalone ATM328 chip, but because I'm using this CH340 UNO and example is with regular UNO, I can't just remove the chip from ...
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Arduino fast start not working properly
I have an Arduino 328p (custom) and I can program it using a FTDI header.
However, when I power it from the FTDI using only the RAW (5V) and GND, it only executes simple programs (example blink). If ...
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How do I reset an ESP8266 with an FTDI and no reset button?
How do I reset an ESP8266 with an FTDI and no reset button? I assume that it has something to do with the reset pin on the ESP8266, but I cannot find a step-by-step usage of the pin online.
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Arduino Nano (clone) not recognized
Asking here cause I ran out of options in searching. My Arduino Nano clone isn't recognized by my computer anymore. It was, until I plugged into a Windows machine, that did not recognize it... and now ...
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Customize FTDI driver for custom PID and VID
I have changed PID and VID of my FTDI board for arduino program because i wanted to rename the com port name.
The ic is FT232R a USB to serial UART interface IC. I have store new vid and pid to ...
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Can Arduino be used as an FDTI Programmer?
I would like to program my ESP 8266 WiFi module. But I don't have an FDTI right now is there any way to use Arduino Uno as FDTI Programmer then use ESP without it.
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Can d2xx connect to an arduino mega 250?
I am trying to replace a device which used a FTDI chip (http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm) to get USB to serial. I need some more code on the chip, so I want to use an arduino mega 2560 instead....
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ATMEGA328P 16Mhz External Clock serial bitrate mismatch (corrupt data)
I've been trying to get an ATMEGA328P communicating via a FTDI breakout board, and have run into something I can't seem to find much information about.
When I have the ATMEGA running on its internal ...
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Connect a USB slave into Arduino using FTDI
Probably I'm asking a nonsense question but I'm new at interfaces.
I want to connect an USB barcode scanner to an Arduino (Uno or Mega). I've read that I need a USB host shield to achieve this. But I ...
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I can't get code transferred to my Arduino Mini Pro
About 3 years ago Sparkfun had a sale on Arduino Minis, so I bought 6 of them (3 x 3.3 V @ 16 MHz and 3 x 5 V @16 MHz). I used two of them for separate projects (everything worked flawlessly) then ...
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Risks of ftdi_eeprom? - TX always high after flashing
I flashed an Arduino Nano compatible with ftdi_eeprom and the following config:
vendor_id=0x0403 # Vendor ID
product_id=0x6001 # Product ID
max_power=0 # Max. power consumption: value * 2 ...
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avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
Arduino IDE is throwing this error when uploading sketches - avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
The problem arose just after I uploaded a blink sketch to my Arduino Mini, which ...
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Unable to upload code on Arduino Nano
My Arduino Nano v3.0 (made by Gravitech US) is behaving in an unexpected manner. Whenever I try to upload a simple Blink program on the board it always give error which is shown below.
avrdude: ...
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Arduino Pro Mini
I have the following problem
I have a pro mini clone, with 328/5V. It was successfully working in my board. I pulled it out of the board, and wanted to update my software. I connected it to my FTDI, ...
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FTDI stdk 500k not responding
I programming atmega328P bootloaded with an FTDI.
Some tutorial mentions that you have to connect the DTR to the reset pin:
http://electronics-diy.com/...
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Arduino resets itself when its connected via Bluetooth
I've got an ArduIMU v3+ (Atmega 328, 5V, 16MhZ) and a Bluetooth Mate Silver (NT-42) connected to it.
When I run this firmware https://gist.github.com/dj-hedgehog/42b9899ad3c4a1844370 and connect it ...
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Upload Code on Arduino Mega using FTDI Cable
I would like to upload my code to the Arduino Mega 2560.
The USB is fried hence I have to use the FTDI
I've a FTDI cable, but it has only 4 wires, Vcc,GND,TX,RX
How do you upload, as the ATmega is ...
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Reprogram CH341A chips VID PID etc
I know it's possible (in theory) to reprogram the VID PID details back into a chip. It is however way beyond me.
Recently I learned that Microsoft distributed a piece of malicious software as part ...
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Why the serial connection only work when Tx and Rx are shorted?
I have a Arduino Pro Mini 3.3V connected to a sim800l chip using a serial connection of 9600bps. When I connect the Arduino to the device, it seems I don't receive anything on the Arduino Rx pin.
I ...
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Record and playback serial data (tty devices)?
I've connected my Arduino project with a FTDI cable to my Mac. I would like to record data that is sentto /dev/tty.usbserial-AJ038NZ3 and be able play it back so I don't need to attach my project all ...
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ESP8266 Returns 'invalid' - Cause 4
I have tried to get the Ai-Thinker ESP8266 working at all. If you hook it up to an Uno you have garbage returned no matter what the baud rate is. Tried softwareSerial on D3 and D4 (switching pins ...
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Atmega328P burn bootloader with FTDI
I need your help.
I am using Arduino ProMini in my project.
In project board there is Atmega328P which doesn't have Arduino bootloader, and Atmega328P RXD, TXD pins are connected to FTDI Basic(...
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How to use FTDI to program Lilypad Arduino?
I am trying to upload a basic Blink code from my computer to Arduino Lilypad contains Atmega 328. While my Blink codes are uploading, FTDI 1402-C CN480661 FT232RL module is not responding to the ...
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Can't get Ubuntu to see FTDI cable for breadboarding Arduino project
I am in the process of breadboarding an Arduino for a project and am using my FTDI Serial cable Adafruit FTDI Cable (tested working on Windows 7). I have also tested the breadboarded Arduino ...
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Using Arduino UNO as FTDI programmer for 9DOF Razor IMU
I am trying to upload some code to the ATmega328 on Sparkfun's 9DOF Razor IMU. Because I don't have an FTDI board at hand I was trying to use my UNO by "grounding" the RESET pin. Communicating with ...
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FTDI breakout connection
I have been successfully programming UNO boards. I wanted to transfer the project to a Pro Mini. I am using a FTDI breakout. It wouldn't show the device port. I found the device driver I was using was ...
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My mega only works on 1.0.1 IDE
My mega usb/serial adapter died some time ago, so I bought an external FTDI programer wich I got working on 1.0.1 IDE. I can load any program to the mega, even complex led matrix driver I wrote myself ...
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Programming an ATMEGA2560 using FTDI
I want to know how exactly do I program (upload arduino sketches) an ATMEGA2560 which is boot loaded with an Arduino Bootloader using a FTDI programmer and an Arduino IDE, is there any capacitors/...
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Atmega88 + arduino Bootloader + FTDI adapter [closed]
I burned the arduino bootloader within a atmega88, in order to program it directly from the serial port. But I can't download my code from the arduino IDE...
But I get the famous : 'avrdude ...
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I can upload via USB but not FTDI
I have a Adafruit Pro Trinket. I'm having issues getting GPS and and SD card working together. The trinket can be connected via USB but there is no serial connection do debugging my program is hard.
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Arduino not detected On El Capitan Public Beta 6
Since I updated to El Capitan Public Beta, my Arduino Uno doesn't show up in the serial devices list.
The System Information utility shows an Arduino connected on the USB port (as 'Communication ...
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Adafruit Trinket & Ultimate GPS & Google Earth Realtime
I'm using a 5v Pro Trinket that has an Adafruit Ultimate GPS connected and is connected over serial to my laptop. I am not using any fancy parsing code, I'm just letting the GPS spit out the raw data. ...
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BLE Mate 2 bluetooth module to Arduino Uno without FTDI SmartBasic
So I'm trying to hook up this BLE breakout board to an Arduino Uno. SparkFun has a hookup guide which seems to be great for someone who has an FTDI SmartBasic that is mentioned in the article. I don't ...
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Find number of RX and TX-pin on ArduiMu
I've got an Arduino V3+ and need to find the correct PIN number for its RX and TX-pin on the FTDI-connector.
How can I find out the correct number of them to use them with the SoftwareSerial-library?
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Arduino Serial Monitor shows strange ASCII characters
I connected an ArduiMU v3+ via a FTDI-cable to my Mac (OS X 10.10) (latest VC FTDI driver is installed and loaded).
Inside the Arduino-software the Serial Monitor (monitoring /dev/cu.usbserial-...
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FTDI Adjustable 3v3/5v only outputs 5v
I bought the below FTDI programmer for use with my 3v3 arduino pro mini. But even when the switch is set to 3v3 it is powering the board with 5v, (hence the IO voltage is also 5v). Note that when the ...
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Simulate a FTDI using an Arduino UNO
I'm looking to directly program an ESP8266 WiFi Module with out using a FTDI (USB-Serial interface) as suggested in this excelent tutorial. The real purpose is to have access to the GPIO ports of the ...
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Can the Arduino Due be used as a serial to USB converter?
The Arduino due exclusively runs on 3.3V, so I am wondering if this can be used as a USB to serial converter just like the Arduino Uno could, or do you need to do level shifting?? Will I ruin the ...
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what ftdi windows driver for arduino nano
at http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm they seem to divide chips into two categories, FT4222H vs. D2XX driver.
What's the correct for a arduino nano?
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FTDI Cable to bypass USB for Arduino (Blend Micro) Programming
I bought a Blend Micro (an Arduino Micro with Bluetooth) a few months ago, and after my first experimentation with uploading the Blink sketch something went wrong with the USB connection--it would ...
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Regarding the USB port, what is the difference between Uno/Mega and the older boards?
I would like to know what the exact difference is between the Uno and Mega boards and the older boards (Duemilanove, Diecimila, etc.). Why do I need to install a FTDI driver for the older boards, and ...
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Programming Arduino Mega processor with FTDI instead of ATmega32
Has anyone tried to program the Arduino Mega with an FTDI chip like in the Arduino Nano (this is for a custom design)
Will it work?
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Device manager sees my nano as FT232 USB UART not as COM port
Until yesterday I had 2 arduino nanos (atmega328, 16Mhz, 5V), and they worked fine,when I changed the cable and was able to upload code to them. Then I tried to make a breadboard arduino, but my PC (...
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unable to install usbserial driver for GPRS shield with mac air vs. 10.9
Despite all my efforts and web crawling I can not install the necessary driver to connect my Arduino uno R3 to the GPRS shield from seeedstudio. I have attempted downloading the VCP driver from http://...
