Hello,
I've problems installing the drivers for DigiSpark. I downloaded the proper drivers from GitHub, unzipped the file, run the DPinst64.exe and afterwards I plugged in the DigiSpark. In the Device Manager is shown that it was not installed correctly (unknown device with yellow exclamation mark). I focused the entry, pushed the right mouse button and selected "Update driver" from the context menu. I used the option for searching my PC and selected the folder in that I unzipped the GitHub drier file. While trying to install this driver windows always tells me that a newer driver already was installed so that it doesn't update it. But unfortunately the driver windows has chosen was a standard USB driver not a DigiSpark driver. There seems to be no option to select the proper driver. Windows always prevents it and there ist no possibility to override the windows decission. What are the steps, how can I update the hardware with the GitHub drivers?
Please post a link to it. I believe there are several versions. The Digistump folks have abandoned the project but some community members have kept it alive and continued to work on it, so there is an outdated official version of the project and then two or three other community variants. It might be important for us to know which you are using.
I used this link:
Is that the right one?
I downloaded the file Digistump.Drivers.zip
That's the original one.
There's a nice 3rd party one here:
A discussion that looks maybe relevant here:
There is also support in this platform:
I know there were some interesting discussions about drivers in that repository's issue tracker or pull requests but I don't have time to find them right now. You might try a search to see what you find.
Thank you very much. I'll give it a try...
...one more question:
Is there a better option instead of using DigiSpark? Mostly I'm using the Arduino Nano for my projects but in my current project it's really important to use a board as small as possible. I thought that's the DigiSpark. If anybody has a better proposal, please let me know.
what sort of peripheral do you need? With the attiny85's 8 pins, you don't have a lot to work with... If all you need is 2 PWM outputs, or maybe 5 GPIO outputs, then yes the attiny is perfect...
I only need to receive a radio or bluetooth signal over a short distance of a few meters in order to switch a LED. I thought, I could use a small 433 Mhz receiver. On the other end are no space issues so that I can use a normal Arduino with a 433 Mhz transceiver. If someone has a better hardware solution on his mind I would be really glad to hear it.
The Attiny85 doesn't have a UART so it will require using software to emulate the serial interface needed to interface with a Bluetooth module. But you should be okay with a 433 MHz module as those usually come with a single data line. I think your main issue is programming the module via emulated USB CDC. You can solve this right away if you have a proper programmer that doesn't require a software running on the Attiny85 to program. In my honest opinion, every Arduino user should have at least one. Try searching for USBtinyISP online
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