I ordered a Arduino Nano V3.0 Compatible ATMEGA328P with FTDI FT232RL
5V 328. Whilst waiting for it (Win 10) I installed Arduino IDE V1.8.8
and had a quick look, but didn't change any of its settings.

The Nano arrived this morning, so I plugged it into the USB, it lit up
then sat flashing two of the green LED's with a not flashing green
power LED. Win10 bing, bong as its plugged in and removed.

Since then I have been struggling to upload a simple program on it
using IDE, but each time IDE compiles OK, then complains 'avrdude:
stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 An error
occurred while uploading the sketch

So far as I could tell, I have installed a driver for it in W10, and it
ought to have a port called 'Arduino', but it doesn't. Device Manager
shows in ports 'USB Serial Port (COM3) which appears and disappears as
the Arduino is plugged in.

Following the procedure described to install the proper driver, it
crashes W10 and forces a reboot.

Clicking 'Board Info' produces -
BN: Unknown board
VID: 0403
PID: 6001
SN: Upload any sketch to obtain it

I have the IDE Tools settings as -
Board: 'Arduino Nano'
Processor: 'AT328P'
Port: 'COM3'
Programmer: 'AVRISP mkII' I have no idea what this ought to be set to..

Help please?

Harry Bloomfield pretended :
Help please?

Solved!

It was the processor selection. There were two versions of the
bootloader, old and new for AT328P - it needed the old version.

Harry Bloomfield wrote:
So far as I could tell, I have installed a driver for it in W10, and it
ought to have a port called 'Arduino', but it doesn't. Device Manager
shows in ports 'USB Serial Port (COM3) which appears and disappears as
the Arduino is plugged in.

Following the procedure described to install the proper driver, it
crashes W10 and forces a reboot.

I think your drivers are confused. Your board has an FTDI USB-serial chip
(FT232) - you can get the VCP drivers from he
https://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm

Once you have the driver, it should show up as the COM port in Device
Manager, and stay there when plugged in. Then you go into the Arduino
software and tell it your board is plugged in on COM3 (or whatever number).

I don't know what the 'Arduino' in Device Manager is, I've not seen that
before. There are fake FT232 chips and, depending on where your board came
from, you might have one of those. They don't work properly.
https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=274359.0

Theo

Oh whats one of these then?
I see the name no idea what it is.
Brian

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Harry Bloomfield wrote:
So far as I could tell, I have installed a driver for it in W10, and it
ought to have a port called 'Arduino', but it doesn't. Device Manager
shows in ports 'USB Serial Port (COM3) which appears and disappears as
the Arduino is plugged in.

Following the procedure described to install the proper driver, it
crashes W10 and forces a reboot.

I think your drivers are confused. Your board has an FTDI USB-serial chip
(FT232) - you can get the VCP drivers from he
https://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm

Once you have the driver, it should show up as the COM port in Device
Manager, and stay there when plugged in. Then you go into the Arduino
software and tell it your board is plugged in on COM3 (or whatever
number).

I don't know what the 'Arduino' in Device Manager is, I've not seen that
before. There are fake FT232 chips and, depending on where your board
came
from, you might have one of those. They don't work properly.
https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=274359.0

Theo

On 06/02/2019 19:03, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Harry Bloomfield pretended :
Help please?

Solved!

It was the processor selection. There were two versions of the
bootloader, old and new for AT328P - it needed the old version.

yeah I ****ed around for about three hours trying to get a hifiberry
zero PLUS DAC working on a Raspberry Pi zero...

Before I found a thing on the internet that said 'this doesn't work with
the Dac PLUS driver - use the old DAC driver instead'

Sigh.




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Oh whats one of these then?
I see the name no idea what it is.
Brian

An Arduino is a little microcontroller board. You can program it via a
USB interface and you program its digital and analouge I/O pins.

Typically you build or buy daughter cards called "shields" that do
stuff, like keypads, displays, motor drivers, etc. etc.



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Brian Gaff laid this down on his screen :
Oh whats one of these then?
I see the name no idea what it is.

It is a really tiny 16Mhz processor, memory and some i/o on a PCB
around 2" x 1", with a USB interface built in, which enables you to
plug it into a PC to program it. which like the RPi has quite a
following. £8 delivered, complete with leads.

Plan is to plug it into my heating systems Ebus, then maybe my Rpi
feeding data to my PC, or direct to PC, so I can see what my heating
system is doing. Just an interesting project, for my own amusement and
no great cost if it doesn't work..

Oh dear, I can see it now, robot curtain closers or maybe you could reinvent
the teasmade?
Brian

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Oh whats one of these then?
I see the name no idea what it is.
Brian

An Arduino is a little microcontroller board. You can program it via a
USB interface and you program its digital and analouge I/O pins.

Typically you build or buy daughter cards called "shields" that do
stuff, like keypads, displays, motor drivers, etc. etc.



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On Thursday, 7 February 2019 08:23:00 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
Oh dear, I can see it now, robot curtain closers or maybe you could reinvent
the teasmade?

Nah it'd have to be a cappichino or flat skinny latta mocha or something.
Teas so 70s.
But with an arduino you could get it to stir, blow bubbles, flash LED's, adjust remote lighting, and all sorts of things while making the brew.

On 07/02/2019 08:22, Brian Gaff wrote:
Oh dear, I can see it now, robot curtain closers or maybe you could reinvent
the teasmade?
Brian

I have one operating a turntable for my model railway, using a motor
shield to drive a stepper motor and an LCD shield with buttons as an
interface - although I may change to an ethernet shield later.

I am planning to use another to drive a digitaly encoded signal to act
as a DCC controller for the locos (DCC++) using another motor shield and
an ethernet shield.

Finally, I may also drive point motors via relay boards, again along
with an ethernet shield.

Initially they will be controlled using a spare PC - probably running JMRI.

In the end the three system will all then be able to be controlled from
handheld units either wired for ethernet or using wi-fi to connect to
the network.

SteveW

On Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:59:00 UTC, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Brian Gaff laid this down on his screen :
Oh whats one of these then?
I see the name no idea what it is.

It is a really tiny 16Mhz processor, memory and some i/o on a PCB
around 2" x 1", with a USB interface built in, which enables you to
plug it into a PC to program it. which like the RPi has quite a
following. £8 delivered, complete with leads.

Can a window on the PC be used as a console for a program running
on the Arduino? Can an "ordinary" program on the PC communicate
with an Arduino program?

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On 07/02/2019 18:58, wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:59:00 UTC, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Brian Gaff laid this down on his screen :
Oh whats one of these then?
I see the name no idea what it is.

It is a really tiny 16Mhz processor, memory and some i/o on a PCB
around 2" x 1", with a USB interface built in, which enables you to
plug it into a PC to program it. which like the RPi has quite a
following. £8 delivered, complete with leads.

Can a window on the PC be used as a console for a program running
on the Arduino? Can an "ordinary" program on the PC communicate
with an Arduino program?


There are many ways to do so.

The serial console over USB being the easy option.

Then there are serial ports, ether net, wireless including bluetooth and
wifi.
You can run web browsers as outputs too.

On Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:58:43 UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:59:00 UTC, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Brian Gaff laid this down on his screen :
Oh whats one of these then?
I see the name no idea what it is.

It is a really tiny 16Mhz processor, memory and some i/o on a PCB
around 2" x 1", with a USB interface built in, which enables you to
plug it into a PC to program it. which like the RPi has quite a
following. £8 delivered, complete with leads.

Can a window on the PC be used as a console for a program running
on the Arduino?

Yes I've used a Mac to do this too, even linux can run it.

Can an "ordinary" program on the PC communicate
with an Arduino program?

depends what you mean by "ordinary"

Can an "ordinary" tyre be used on my car, can an "ordinary" word processor work on my compter.


https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software



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On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:58:57 +0000, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Brian Gaff laid this down on his screen :
Oh whats one of these then?
I see the name no idea what it is.

It is a really tiny 16Mhz processor, memory and some i/o on a PCB around
2" x 1", with a USB interface built in, which enables you to plug it
into a PC to program it. which like the RPi has quite a following. £8
delivered, complete with leads.

You can get them even cheaper than that. I paid a mere £4.45 for one
with a USB lead (I pushed the boat out - it would have only been £3.49
sans USB lead). https://preview.tinyurl.com/y4gau8uv


Plan is to plug it into my heating systems Ebus, then maybe my Rpi
feeding data to my PC, or direct to PC, so I can see what my heating
system is doing. Just an interesting project, for my own amusement and
no great cost if it doesn't work..

I ordered it a week last Thursday with a promised delivery of last
Monday or Tuesday but it arrived in Saturday morning's post almost a week
ago now.

The idea was to utilise it with a U-blox NEO M8N GPS module to make up a
programmable frequency output GPSDO on the cheap. I haven't even broken
the seal on its antistatic bag so I can't comment on its functionality
just yet but, for a mere £3.49 for an out of warranty replacement, I'm
not overly bovvered whether it actually works or not (I had other
distractions to worry about).

However, I might get round to downloading the IDE for it and plug it
into my PC just for a quick test later this week. Das Blinkenlight (the
Arduino version of "Hello World") 'sketch' should be enough of a basic
functional test for now.

TBH, I'm not sure whether the programmable frequency feature of the NEO
M8N is worth bothering with, other than for fixing it at 10MHz to
discipline a VCOCXO with the addition of a PLL to generate an additional
30MHz test reference output to assist recalibration of my signal
generator's internal TCXO frequency reference and the XO reference in my
Kenwood TS140S HF transceiver[1].

If nothing else, the Arduino nano will let me add an alphanumeric
display to my GPSDO box so I can monitor the number of locked satellites
and indicate a valid locked frequency state or the loss of locked output.
Whether I'd bother with a hex keypad or just use a few push buttons is
something I've yet to decide. Whatever I go for, the Arduino nano will be
central to making a self contained GPSDO unit.

[1] At the moment, I'm simply using the NEO M8N's raw 10MHz output on the
PPS pin (and its third harmonic) directly as calibration frequency
references with nothing more than a cheap active patch antenna on a 5
metre lead, after using U-Blox's u-centre software installed on a winXP VM
to program its PPS line to output the required 10MHz signal.

The built in patch antenna in the module I bought wasn't pulling strong
enough signals in to actually lock onto any satellites. The suspect being
a microscopic 1.5GHz low noise amplifier chip (the module only cost me 21
quid delivered). Just barely enough signal was being received to pick up
the satellite's idents but not their data. Plugging a 14 cm 3/4 wave wire
into its SMA socket worked quite well, proving that spending a whole
three quid on the external amplified antenna wasn't going to be a wasted
investment.

Checking just now with u-centre, I can see I've now got a lock on 19
satellites. It rarely dips below the 16 satellite mark since I placed my
external mag mount antenna on a ballasted biscuit tin parked on the flat
bay window roof a couple of days ago. Even the 14cm wire antenna with the
unit on a window ledge was able to rustle up some 10 to 12 satellites! :-)

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