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OceanographyforEveryone / OpenCTD

The OpenCTD is a low-cost, open-source CTD for researchers and citizen scientists.
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Qduino mini board manager #11

Closed camullen86 closed 7 years ago

camullen86 commented 7 years ago

When preparing a sketch using the qduino mini i noticed the IDE does not have drivers for this board and found info online suggesting it can easily be bricked if using the wrong setup. i was able to find the board manager and set it up easily enough but a note reminding makers to be aware of this may be good.

i used the following site to get mine set as it has full directions. https://www.hackster.io/team-qtechknow/qduino-mini-quickstart-guide-8b2d68

DrAndrewThaler commented 7 years ago

Thank you! I added the Qtechknow quickstart guide to the README.

camullen86 commented 7 years ago

Hi Andrew, i was wondering if you had any issues getting the Qduino Mini to work with the IDE. I've gone through the full setup to install the board manager and drivers, everything is up to date. When i launch the IDE it shows Qduino Mini on COM PORT2 in the bottom right of the application, and is also selected as the board being used, the problem I'm having is that the Ports menu is grayed out and inaccessible, and if i try to compile and upload anything it says it cant reach the board.

there appears to be a hardware issue that says the device needs further installation, but the drivers and files are all up to date. So far I haven't been able to find anything useful in any of the forums about this subject.

Thanks for any insight you may have, Chris

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DrAndrewThaler commented 7 years ago

Hi Chris,

If the comm ports don't show up, that generally means there's a driver issue. Have you tried installing all the default Arduino drivers, not just the Qduino specific ones?

If that doesn't work, try pinging https://twitter.com/Qtechknow, they are super helpful and responsive.