Braccio examples missing from Arduino IDE 1.8.8?

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hi,

this being my very first Arduino project, I am trying to get the Braccio robot up and running against an Arduino Uno. Platform is Windows 10, IDE is 1.8.8/1.8.19.0 freshly downloaded and installed. Now, I am at a loss at finding the Braccio examples that are supposedly available in the IDE.

Browsing the menu structure, I can't find any Braccio examples in the online IDE either. I do find some examples using the search function. Problem is that the online IDE does not connect to my Arduino Uno, which seems to prevent it from compiling and uploading.

Locally on my PC, I cannot even find the Braccio.h when doing a file search in the installation tree.

What is going on here, what am I missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Kleptomancer

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I dont have the robot but it sounds like you have not installed the library.

Open the IDE
Select SKETCH, INCLUDE LIBRARY, MANAGE LIBRARIES.

In the box that opens up type "brac" into the search box.
It should then list two optional libraries for you to install.

When that is done I prefer to restart the IDE myself.

As far as uploads go it may be that additional hardware attached to the board may be interfering so try uploads with simple sketches such as BLINK with the timing values changes so you know it is your copy of BLINK.

USB 3.0 has also been known to cause issues so try ensure that you use a USB 2.0

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Very good, thank you.