Hi!
I am very new to Arduino, but I'm decent at programming in JS and HTML.
I watched a few videos about how to set up my board with the "Blink" program a while ago (I prefer learning by reading), but ran into some problems:
The problems
• At first my board, which I believe to be a "Pro Micro" (but I need to verify this, how do I get to know which board I have?), was blinking yellow and green a little "random"-like when plugged into my laptop. (the board has 2-3 LED:s) – But after having ran a pasted-in version of the program "Blink" that i believe i got from some website that a video linked to, the board seemed to have broken for I am no linger getting that "random"-like blinking anymore, just one red light that is constantly on.
My Questions
• Is the constant red LED a common issue? And how do I solve it?
• How do I run the program "Blink" on my board?
• How do I determine which board I have?
• How do I select the board I have in the Arduino software?
• Where can I get the code for the program "Blink"?
Next I will post a picture of my board (with the red light).
/* Pro Micro Test Code
by: Nathan Seidle
modified by: Jim Lindblom
SparkFun Electronics
date: September 16, 2013
license: Public Domain - please use this code however you'd like.
It's provided as a learning tool.
This code is provided to show how to control the SparkFun
ProMicro's TX and RX LEDs within a sketch. It also serves
to explain the difference between Serial.print() and
Serial1.print().
*/
int RXLED = 17; // The RX LED has a defined Arduino pin
// Note: The TX LED was not so lucky, we'll need to use pre-defined
// macros (TXLED1, TXLED0) to control that.
// (We could use the same macros for the RX LED too -- RXLED1,
// and RXLED0.)
void setup()
{
pinMode(RXLED, OUTPUT); // Set RX LED as an output
// TX LED is set as an output behind the scenes
Serial.begin(9600); //This pipes to the serial monitor
Serial.println("Initialize Serial Monitor");
Serial1.begin(9600); //This is the UART, pipes to sensors attached to board
Serial1.println("Initialize Serial Hardware UART Pins");
}
void loop()
{
Serial.println("Hello world!"); // Print "Hello World" to the Serial Monitor
Serial1.println("Hello! Can anybody hear me?"); // Print "Hello!" over hardware UART
digitalWrite(RXLED, LOW); // set the RX LED ON
TXLED0; //TX LED is not tied to a normally controlled pin so a macro is needed, turn LED OFF
delay(1000); // wait for a second
digitalWrite(RXLED, HIGH); // set the RX LED OFF
TXLED1; //TX LED macro to turn LED ON
delay(1000); // wait for a second
}
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It looks like the desired port is not showing up in the PORT-menu... It used to show up as "Arduino" in the PORT-menu before the board froze in a state of a red LED, but no longer aparently. How do I solve this?
I have two boards now. Two Pro Micro Clones. One (the old one) still doesn't work; It just doesn't show up in the ports menu, even after I restarted the Arduino program. This error first appeared after I ran a program on the board with the wrong configurations (wrong selected board), but shall the board really be broken permanently after this??
The second Pro Micro Clone seems to work fine and shows up in the ports menu. Does anyone know how to fix the error with the first board?
