Hi all,
I am trying to use an Arduino Pro Micro 5v/16mhz with the Arduino 1.0 software on mac. The chip I am using is from sparkfun.
The installation tutorial says I should choose the 'Arduino Leonardo board' option in the 'boards' list but
it is not listed.
The tutorial for pc installation says you can edit the boards.txt file to enable the leonardo option in the
list but I cannot find the mac equivalent of this file.
Anyone know where the mac equivalent of the 'boards.txt' file is kept? or is there an alternative compatible board I can pick. I have searched in all folders and cannot find anything apart from the
Arduino prefs file. This has no boards options.
When I plug in the board the mac recognises it as an 'Arduino Leonardo'. Arduino software is the latest version.
Ok so, solved it. Thanks for your help John but that method did not work for me.
For anyone else who needs to know how to do this. Find the 'Arduino' application in Finder
Right click
select 'Show Package Contents'
navigate to Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/Arduino
The mac version of boards.txt is hidden deep in there. You can change or replace the boards.txt here.
To activate the 'Arduino Leonardo' board option you have to remove all the annotations (hashes - sorry can't find the key on bloody mac) from the start of every Leonardo line, then save.
This must be done with Arduino closed as I believe it will overwrite the file when you close it.
ressurrecting an ancient post, this is all i could find, and I have a bit different case. I'm using Sandeep Mistry's Arduino Core for the Nordic nRF52xxx boards and as it is a downloaded package through the boards manager, and it uses a different processor core, compiler, and debugger (fun times!) there's a bit more. After some digging I found the packages folder in the Library folder (open finder, click go, hold down option key and Library appears..) then in the Arduino15 folder you'll see packages and staging... staging is like the downloads from libraries and board managers, tools, etc, packages is the live stuff... dig through there and in my case I found the boards.txt and variants folders as well as the json definitions of the package itself. Pretty slick. I'm using Kris Winer's dev board and his board isn't part of Sandeep's package though I intend to submit it to him for inclusion. Hope this helps someone in the future.