Hey Arduinoland, I have an old, slowly decaying MacBook whose USB ports appear to have stopped working, at least partially. If I plug in any USB device, the laptop will not give the device power. BUT, if I plug in any Arduino pre-Uno, and power it with external power, it will program and do serial …

half-broken USB port

cmiyc January 18, 2013, 2:21pm 3

Get a powered USB hub and plug into that.

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