Hello Arduino family-
Please forgive me f i posted to the wrong tread or topic. I am totally new to this and will GREATLY appreciate your help. I recently bought Boeing 733 flight simulator MCP project online and the project requires that I use arduino Mega 2560. I went ahead and bought my first arduino Mega 2560 r3 board from official arduino site (I have heard stories about arduino clones/counterfeit having issues or requires additional update). The seller sent me all the codes needed to be loaded into arduino IDE (files are in zip format)' He said that "you MUST update your Arduino firmware before OR the project won't work.
He asked me to update firmware but when I looked online (including YouTube) how to do it, I got tons of answers/responses and none of them was very helpful for a complete beginner like me.
Now the question is:
- Do I really need to update the firmware as first time user when i bought the board or the board is ready to go? (Arduinosite>> getting started section never mentioned anything about updating firmware as first time user or even when uploading codes/files)
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- HOW DO I UPDATE MY ARDUINO MEGA2560 r3 FIRMWARE?
- Do i need an additional board/software downloaded from arduino site in order to update firmware
Thank you for your thorough explanation and for helping me with this.
Some sketches "BECOME" the firmware at a secondary level.
GRBL for CNC work is one such sketch.
There are other instances and i think in your case maybe the MCP software will become the same.
Your software is not something I am familiar with but they type of program is.
In your case you may need to use the LIBRARY MANAGER within the IDE to add the ZIP file.
Then you may need to check your example libraries for the MCP sketches.
There may be a couple of examples but the chances are one is just to test out a couple of things and there will often be a MAIN sketch.
Quite often opening up the main sketch will have parameters that need to be updated for differences in the hardware that will be attached eg. displays. gauges, etc.
It will probably be that part your friend is referring to.
Once you have made the suitable changes it would normally just be a matter of using the IDE to compile and then upload to finish the process.
Bob.
Thank you @Budvar10. Your comments are very helpful.
I will make sure to give update on the new board i just bought.
Thank you @ballscrewbob. It sound like you're very familiar with flight sim environments and how people write codes to be interfaced with arduino.
I went back to some of the zip files he sent me and open them to see what was inside.
I saw one file with "examples" (See the added attachment)
I will make sure to upload the zip files (Sketch>>Include library>>Add Zip library)
then upload the sketch into IDE environment from the library.
Connect arduino to my MCP PCB,
Then i can go back and try to run examples from the library (As if i'm running LED blinker)
Thank you @Budvar10. Your comments are very helpful.
I will make sure to give update on the new board i just bought.
Thank you @ballscrewbob. It sound like you're very familiar with flight sim environments and how people write codes to be interfaced with arduino.
I went back to some of the zip files he sent me and open them to see what was inside.
I saw one file with "examples" (See the added attachment)
I will make sure to upload the zip files (Sketch>>Include library>>Add Zip library)
then upload the sketch into IDE environment from the library.
Connect arduino to my MCP PCB,
Then i can go back and try to run examples from the library (As if i'm running LED blinker)
