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Thanks for the heads up.
We have a small new arduino group meeting at a makerspace in
Menominee Wi and I will sure pass this on to them.
A couple of us have just bought some UNO clones that use the CH340G
USB converter chip. I wonder if that's one of the "knock offs" they
are talking about or if that chip is just a new design.
Both my friend and I had some small issues with getting the new
UNO's talking, but no major problems. I use Windows and had only
really minor issues, but my friend is a MAC guy and had more issues.
The one thing I have noticed is that additional Arduino's (the ones
with the CH340G chip) don't get assigned new, unique COM ports like
the 16U2's, etc. did.


Pete Stanaitis
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You can check the VID (Vendor ID) in Device Properties in the Device
Manager. For an FTDI chip or copy it's 0403.

-jsw