Hello, I am a beginner and have been trying to trouble shoot my project. At this point I've hit a wall. I'm running on windows 11.
I need help, because the adeept hexapod spider, pixie board is not recognized by arduino, and no port is selectable. The robot is built, and gets power to it along with the pixie board.
I have successfully installed CH341ser. And also installed the libraries needed. Neo pixel, Servo, SR04, and Hexapod. As per tutorial.
My other boards like, arduino nano, pico pie, esp32, etc. All work fine and are detectable with port. I have tried different cables and ports with the adeept pixie board and it still doesn't work.
In device manager on my lab top no port is detected in the list when the Hexapod is plugged in, but ports do pop up in the list when I plug in any of my other boards.
I'm stumped and starting to think something is wrong with the adeept pixie board. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Best regards.
Thanks for your reply. I will check out the links and look into this.
Though my other boards all work, detected, port available and I can upload code. Its only the adeept pixie board I'm having a problem with.
Best Regards.
The Pico doesn't have the CH340/341 chip so that will use a different driver. The ESP32 may or may not depending on which one you have. If the Nano is a genuine Arduino product then it will also have a different chip, but a clone board will have the CH340.
Do the other boards that work have the CH340 chip? If so, and they work, then it might be a different issue, for example a faulty USB cable.
The nano is a clone board, and so is one of my uno 3's. And when I plug them in I can see in device manager the, port with CH340. When I plug in the Adeept board, nothing appears in device manager.
Ok, it sounds like the USB cable can be ruled out then. I notice from the instruction pdf that the Pixie board has a program upload switch. Is this set to the 0 position?
Well if the Uno and Nano clone boards with CH340 chips work then that is a good indication that the driver is working.
Good idea to try without the WiFi module plugged in. Ideally there should be nothing plugged in while programming.
I know this sounds obvious, but you have turned switch 1 to the On position? The instructions seem to miss that point. (but do tell you to turn it off afterwards).
If all those points have been ruled out, then all that's left would indeed appear to be a fault with the board itself.
Thank you, yes I tied that as well. And just now its power connection when plugged in via usb to computer is a bit faulty. Like you have to adjust the cable slightly at the micro usb board connection point. Sometimes no power, then I pull the cable a little, and power restores and is stable, if I leave it alone. This just started tonight. Yea I agree, at this point I think its the board. Thank you for your help.
