I have attached a picture of an Arduino Mega that I received. I noticed when putting it into my case that the reset button is near the USB port and not near the center of the board, which is where the case has cutouts for. Is this a clone board?
The image on the Arduino.org web site has the reset button in that position.
Can you provide a photo of the back of your board?
The back of the board matches the board on the .org site, why would the Mega on arduino.cc have the reset button in the middle of the board? I am thrown off because even the box it came in has the artwork showing the button in the middle of the board. Thank you for the link, I never came across the .org site in my Google hunt to figure out why it won't fit my case.
edit: As soon as I saved my edit I did another search and answered my question.
"The short of it is that there was a falling out within the Arduino people and now there are two groups laying claim to the "Arduino" name.
Arduino LLC runs arduino.cc. They are the steward of the Arduino IDE and libraries and own the "Arduino" trademark outside of Italy. Arduino SRL (fka Smart Projects SRL) is the company that assembles(assembled) the majority of Arduino boards for Arduino LLC, runs arduino.org, and owns the "Arduino" trademark inside Italy.
Arduino SRL recently decided that they are no longer beholden to Arduino LLC and has stopped paying licensing fees for using the Arduino name. Whether this is justified or not has not been fully tested in court yet."
That is definitely a .org board. It even says so on it, next to the RX and TX leds.
Does it works fine ?
It works fine, they only issue is the enclosure I prebuilt for it has a reset button in a completely different location (I was going off of an existing Mega that I own). I had no idea that there were 2 different "versions" floating out there, the .CC and .ORG. I will have to scrap the top of the enclosure and rebuild.
You could probably easily glue a button in the traditional spot on the Mega and wire it to the ground and reset pins right there on the nearby ICSP header. That's what I would do.
I had no idea that there were 2 different "versions"
Same place for UNO and Mega.
68tjs:
Same place for UNO and Mega.
Probably means versions of megas.