I recently purchased the DFRobot Rover v2 and after assembling it I tried to start programming it in the latest version of Arduino IDE. I have a macbook running the latest version of Mac OS X, Mountain Lion. I have installed the latest FTDI drivers and after many restarts I cannot see the serial port of the usb interface with the DFRobot Arduino board in Arduino IDE. It seems impossible to get this up and running. However I have plugged into the usb port an older Arduino Uno board that I happened to have and that seemed to work fine.
Anyone has an idea of how to fix this? I would appreciate any help.
I have tried everything you said and the board does not seem to work. I attempted to use the Arduino IDE on two different windows machines one with XP and the other with Windows 7 still nothing. So is there a problem with the board or is there a chance the mini usb cable I 've got has issues? Anything else to recommend?
Defintiely try new cables. Also, with your MAC, if it doesn’t work when you try to connect, unplug the cable from the MAC and plug it into a different port.
Also are you using any kind of hub in between the device and the computer? if so remove it from the equation and connect directly to the computer…
Also, if you are proficient with your mac, you could look at dmesg in terminal to see whether the machine even sees when you connect the device. If the statement above does not make sense to you, then forget the idea. Playing around in terminal can lead to some nasty results…
The DFRobotShop Rover V2 does not use an FTDI chip to do serial to USB. The board is based on the Arduino Uno and uses an ATMel chip with custom firmware. For a MAC, you don’t need to install any drivers. In the Arduino IDE, choose “Arduino Uno” as the board type, and then choose the correct COM port. The Arduino installation guide for MAC should be up to date.
if you still have issues, can you find a Windows-based computer and follow the procedure for the Uno drivers? This would help determine if there is a hardware issue.
The fact that it does not work with a Windows computer (be absolutely sure you installed the drivers according to the Arduino website; NOT the FTDI drivers), with nothing else connected is suspect. Please contact us via the RobotShop Support Center and we’ll look into an exchange since it sounds possible that the ATMega8 chip was not flashed correctly.
