Hi sorry this is way more information about me than you need. I have pretty epic adhd and anxiety, so taking on an electronics project is particularly challenging for me. I’m at a point where I’d like to just pay someone to do this for me because I have hit a hard wall and can’t seem to get anything to work. Sorry for the weirdly personal post - I just wanted to give some context why I’m not very good at researching information.
My project is a 3d printed turret from the game Rust. In the description you use an Arduino nano and some code that was provided by the model designer. I was going to make a bunch of these for my friends, so I bought 6 elegoo nanos, 6 x SG90 servo and 6 x little red led lights.
When I try to connect the elegoo nanos to the IDE software, the port comes up but it says unknown device. I went and bought a genuine Arduino Nano as well in case I had bought the wrong thing, and I get the same problem.
I tried loading a legacy version of the software, I tried some ch340 driver thing, I tried another driver. Still nothing
I tried ignoring the fact that it was unknown and just uploading the code anyway. Says it uploaded but nothing seems to happen.
At this stage I am so confused that I don’t even know where to start to fix this and would be happy to just send it all to someone else and pay them to fix it for me.
I’m also aware that the info that I have just given isn’t detailed enough - but I don’t know what sort of detail is important. Please try and help me or let me know how much it would cost to get someone to do it all for me. I don’t want to give up on it, but I’m mega triggered and it isn’t fun at all - and doesn’t feel achievable at all right now
The Nanos use a generic ttl-to-usb converter. For official Nanos it's an FTDI chip, for clones it's usually a CH340.
As those chips are generic, there is no way that they can be used to identify a board. E.g. the CH340s are also used on plenty of other boards.
There is an issue in IDE 2.3.3 where a failed upload is not reported as failed. This issue does not happen in IDE 2.3.2 or in IDE 1.8.19. So if you use e.g. IDE 1.8.19 and it reports a successful upload and the turret does not work as expected it's either a code issue or a hardware issue (e.g. wiring, power).
You did mention "legacy IDE" hence my reference to IDE 1.8.19.
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