I have an arduino Leonardo that I've been using for a while. It has always worked perfectly, but today when I turned on my PC the IDE said the port wasn't plugged in. So I did what everybody would do and plugged it out and in again. That's when something curious happend.
The IDE showed the arduino as conected for about 3-5 seconds then it disconected again. The boards On-led keept inicating it was on.
so I tried another port
and anothe cable
restarting my pc
restarting IDE
nothing.
WHat do I do? is my board dead? (I use windows btw)
But I wouldn't recommend buying another Leonardo. Not a good form factor unless you plan to plug shields on top. Consider Arduino Micro or Pro Micro, which have far more sensible form factor for most projects.
There are many types of boards called Nano these days, with different features and capabilities, so please clarify which type you are asking about
Leonardo, Micro and Pro Micro all have the "native USB" feature which enables them to appear as a mouse/keyboard/joystick/MIDI device to a PC. Not all types of Nano can do that.
I've no experience with Nano Every. It's relatively new and the only type of Arduino that uses that particular chip. That may make it problematic for beginners in some way, I don't know. I don't think it has Native USB feature, if that's important to you.
Why not describe the type of projects you like or want to try, and the forum can suggest some models that would be suitable for a beginner.
I FIXED THE BOARD!! Turns out my code had somehow messed up the usb connection, so i uploaded an example program during the seconds it remained conected, and everything was fine again!
