No port named "Bare Conductive Touch Board" in Arduino IDE

Projects Programming
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Hi there,

I haven't used my Bare Conductive Board since 2020, trying to get it going again for a project and it's putting up a fight. I followed all of the instructions in the Bare Conductive Troubleshooting guide.

  • I'm on a 2017 Mac Pro running Monteray
  • I'm using Arduino 1.8.19
  • I have downloaded the Touch Board Manual Install file, moved all the folders, and followed the instructions in the text file
  • I restarted my computer after setting everything up

I can see the board under Tools -> Boards, but under ports I only have the following:

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The instructions mention finding a port with the Board name which I don't see. I tried both of these and every time I try to upload, I get the errors:

avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
Found programmer: Id = ""; type = 
    Software Version = .; Hardware Version = .
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: error: buffered memory access not supported. Maybe it isn't
a butterfly/AVR109 but a AVR910 device?
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check.

avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding

I have tried giving it time, I have also tried holding the reset button after hitting upload until the "uploading..." thing appears.

The board turns on and is otherwise functional, not sure what to do, please help if you can!

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I should also mention, I only changed the programmer to USBasp from AVRISP mkll when following another tutorial, but neither worked.

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Fixed my own problem, turns out it was the micro USB cable I was using. Some cables are only for power, not data transfer.

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