Move the USB port of the Mega R3 to the shield ? possible ?

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Hi everyone.
First of all, sorry if my english is not perfect.

So here we go. I want to know if I could put a USB port on the shield im wonking on and then connect it to the arduino mega, so i could use this port instead of the original one to download my code from my computer to my arduino. would be easier for me for further update of my project.

Thanks

Karl

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Basically NO. But the real question is why? What are you really trying to do?

Mark

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What you may be able to do is use a USB-TTL cable.

If pins 0 and 1 of the Mega come through on the Shield you could connect a USB-TTL cable to them and communicate with your Mega that way. Also connect to GND. If you need to upload programs with the USB-TTL cable then you will also need to be able to connect RTS to the reset pin.

If you don't need to upload programs with it you could connect the USB-TTL cable to the pins for any of the Serial ports.

...R