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Default Arduino and Windows Update

Hi,

I know there are several people here that work with Arduino
microcontrollers. Just a heads up to a potential headache.

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Windows Update drivers bricking USB serial chips beloved of hardware
hackers The move to combat counterfeit chips leaves hobbyists stuck in
the middle.

by Peter Bright - Oct 23, 2014 12:40 am UTC

Hardware hackers building interactive gadgets based on the Arduino
microcontrollers are finding that a recent driver update that Microsoft
deployed over Windows Update has bricked some of their hardware,
leaving it inaccessible to most software both on Windows and Linux.
This came to us via hardware hacking site Hack A Day...
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See:

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...dware-hackers/

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