Hello Group,
So I have 2 pico arduinos made by MellBell Electronics. I have tried uploading the sketch using the Leonardo and Micro selections in the Arduino IDE which is running on windows vista and windows 7 version 1.8.2 of the IDE. No sketches are able to upload and the error states can't find com ports which is weird because I have the correct com ports selected in the IDE and double checking in windows device manage. I did email MellBell for some tech help and they are looking into it as well. Just checking to see if anyone on this forum has had any luck using these little boards. Thanks for the help.
Here is their website: https://mellbell.cc/
I've selected the Leonardo board and I've followed the directions to press the reset button while uploading to select the correct port. Here is the error that it's throwing now:
Arduino: 1.8.2 (Windows Vista), Board: "Arduino Leonardo"
Build options changed, rebuilding all
Sketch uses 4130 bytes (14%) of program storage space. Maximum is 28672 bytes.
Global variables use 149 bytes (5%) of dynamic memory, leaving 2411 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2560 bytes.
Couldn't find a Board on the selected port. Check that you have the correct port selected. If it is correct, try pressing the board's reset button after initiating the upload.
This report would have more information with
"Show verbose output during compilation"
option enabled in File -> Preferences.
What does device manager say when you connect the board to the PC? Which port does it indicate? That is the port that you should select in the IDE.
What does device manager say when you press the reset button? It should change and a while later (couple of seconds) change back to the other port?
I suggest that you enable 'verbose output during upload' in the IDE menu File -> Preferences. It might give pointers and it will allow you to follow the upload process.
You misunderstood @spycatchers2k remark. The board is not an Arduino and hence you might be better of contacting MellBell. It's not that we don't want to help, but most of us will not have the board so can't test it.
If you contact MellBell and get feedback (or not), please post it here for future reference.
I did contact MellBell and they said they are working on it. In device manager it says port 20 as does the IDE....when the reset button is pushed it changes to port 21 in both the device manager and the IDE and in verbose mode it states port 20 and the states upload port 21 found how ever it fails to upload and gives the avrdude error and cannot find port.