Help! I’m a beginner. I’ve soldered my Arduino micro onto a solderable breadboard, along with all the components for my circuit (Midi controller taking readings from analog distance sensors and mapping them to midi values) and the board is not getting anything. By not getting anything I mean; when I plug the board into my laptop it doesn’t light up or nothing. It isn’t recognised on my computer either. I’m using a Mac OS and tried restarting and checking for updates but to no avail. I would usually just pack it in and start from scratch but this is a part of my major project for uni and I don’t have access to another micro board before tomorrow night when the project is due. The board had never been plugged in and there was no obvious short circuits. I understand this is a vague call to help but I’m quite lost! If anyone has any ideas or tips about how I can troubleshoot this, please share, would be very much appreciated.
The Mac should recognize and power through USB a genuine Arduino micro without any specific driver or update or whatever.
Have you tried a different USB cable? can you try on another computer or just with a USB phone charger ?
so you did not test the board on your Mac before soldering it?
can you easily unsolder the Arduino micro? (usually easier to mount them on DIP / SIP Sockets)
are you talking about problems with the Arduino Pro Micro
if so have a look at pro-micro--fio-v3-hookup-guide
in particular How to Revive a "Bricked" Pro Micro
I haven’t tried a different USB cable, but the same cable works fine with the Arduino Leonardo. I unfortunately didn’t plug the board into my computer before soldering it in as I assumed because it was fresh out of the box that there wouldn’t be an issue, a silly corner to cut in hindsight.
Ahh your right soldering onto sockets would have been much better.
I’ve tried to use some wick to desolder but it’s not really working for me. It’s my first time desoldering so I haven’t really figured it out yet. I haven’t tried using flux but I’m assuming that’s what I’m missing.
you would need a good Desoldering Pump
Will find one of these today and get to it, thank you.
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