Connecting Arduino Uno and Chromebook

Good evening

I am working with my 8 year old son.

I have purchased an Arduino kit - on the box it calls itself the "Arduino Starter Kit". On the base of the Arduino board, it calls itself the Arduino Uno R3.

I am working with a Chromebook.

I have created an account on the Arduino web editor; I have connected - using the supplied USB cable - the Arduino to the Chromebook.

I have selected the Arduino Uno in the drop down to select the board (there is no option for Arduino Uno R3).

The board is NOT connecting to the editor/Chromebook (there is a red cross indicating no connection).

Does anyone have any suggestions, please, for options here ?

Many thanks

Simon May

Does your Uno (R3) show up in the device manager for the Chromebook, or command line dmesg if Linux? The instructions seem to be exactly what you have done...

If you need to reset your chromebook...

Hi @xpdf

I appreciate your reply - thank you.

My Chromebook is a personal/individual one. From what I understand the "device manager" is only applicable if your Chromebook is attached to a wider 'enterprise' or 'education' account - mine is not.

So I have not made any progress with understanding if the Uno R3 shows up in the device manager.

I have recently done a complete power wash on my Chromebook to reset it to factory settings.

I may - rather reluctantly - have to go down the route of using Linux on my Chromebook to achieve communication with my Uno.

Thank you for your help.

Simon May

Hi there

Frustrated user here !

I have an Arduino Uno R3 board/device. I am working with a Chromebook + Arduino web editor.

In the drop down for the web editor, I specify "Arduino Uno" (there is no 'R3' option).

This does not work - I cannot upload a sketch from the web editor to the device.

I'd welcome any advice, please !

Many thanks

Simon May

Which errors do you get? Is the Arduino an genuine Uno with 16U2 TTL-to-USB converter or a clone with another chip (e.g. CH340).

Seeing that you have posted about 5 months ago about the same problem. I assume that this problem is actually an old issue (Connecting Arduino Uno and Chromebook). If so, why did you start a new topic?

And why did you post in the uncategorized section who's description is do not post here

I have moved it here which looks like a more appropriate category.

@sterretje & @Grumpy_Mike - thank you both for your help here.

I had forgotten that I was frustrated with this back in January, and had put the whole thing to one side. Thank you for reminding me.


Please see the image of the device which I have purchased - labelled "Starter Kit". I can identify the microprocessor, but cannot identify the TTL-USB converter.

I have - as I resorted to in January - made use of the Arduino IDE within te Linux partition fo my Chromebook. I have made the assumption that the Web Editor is no use to me.

Many thanks

Simon

It is here.

Since they are on the same subject matter, I merged the new topic with the original one from January.

@simonmay please answer the question sterretje asked yesterday:

We need you to provide a detailed description of what you mean by "This does not work".

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