At Ebay you can buya clone of the Arduino Nano for less than 3 Euro. Often it can be found under names like "Nano V3.0 ATmega328 CH340G" with the addition "for Arduino" or "Arduino compatible", for example here.
These clones don't use a FT232R as USB-Serial converter like the "original". The use a CH340G (as you can guess), so the drivers of the Arduino IDE won't work with the clone. You have to install a special driver on your own. You can download it here from the manufacturer. There are also drivers for MAC und Linux but I will only explain how to install the driver for Windows. At first, you have to extract the ZIP archive. If you use Windows 64bit, you have to copy the file "DRVSETUP64.exe" from the folder "DRVSETUP64" to its parent folder which contains (amongst others) the file "CH341SER.INF". Depending on your system you then have to run "SETUP.EXE" (32bit) or "DRVSETUP64.exe" (64bit). Click "INSTALL" and the driver is beeing installed. The Arduino board MUST NOT be connected to your computer, when you install the driver. Connect the Arduino AFTER the successful installation. Windows will then recognize it.
Hello there!
ReplyDeleteI am Antonis from codebender, and I noticed that you faced some difficulties,
when you tried to install the drivers for CH340G chip,on Mac.
If you want to overcome this problem, without disabling your computers’ security settings,
Maybe I can help you with this! We just released our new Mac drivers package,
which includes a new driver that supports the CH340G chip on Yosemite and all OSX for Mac.
This will help you to install these drivers securely, and
all you have to do is to download and install them.
You are more than welcomed to check them out (https://codebender.cc/),
or read about them in our blog(http://blog.codebender.cc/2015/06/12/new-stuff-updated-mac-drivers/)
You can also drop me a line if you want at support@codebender.cc, with any questions you might have.
Thank you for reading so far and I hope I meet you in codebender soon!
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Antonis CC