I've just received an arduino workshop kit from Smiley Micros and it appears to work fine. However, on closer inspection of the PCB I can see there is solder across the pins 3 and 4 of the FTDI chip when viewing the board with the USB socket on the right and counting pin 1 nearest the USB socket and…

solder shorting pins on arduino FTDI chip

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