Wild Thumper, system sees USB but no option in Arduino port menu

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I have a wild thumper.

I'm powering it with 5V 2A wall wart to battery +/-, as well as the usb plugged in and the charger power (which I realize isn't helpful).

Both a PC and a Mac recognize the USB is plugged in, making the appropriate FTDI entries in the device table.

However, I neither case do I see an option for any port in the Arduino port menu, so, of course I can't upload.

What should I be seeing as a port?

* I've been able to upload fresh 168P firmware using the appropriate instructions.

* I've tested "regular" Arduinos using this client code on both Mac and PC.

* I've tried Arduino 0023 and Arduino 1.0

The usb connector seems "firm", not loose I have an external FTDI connector, that's sort of annoying last resort to come in via D0,D1.

Ideas?

thanks, imrhb

 

 

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To figure out which port

in Windows you just open Device Manager and then go to ports(?) to see which port the FTDI is connected. I can’t tell you for sure about the Mac.

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arduino not seeing usb for wild thumper on osx - solved

thanks for the rapid responses. In my case, it appears I was either missing or had an out of date FTDI driver.  Once I installed the updated Mac OSX driver, I was able to see and upload a file to the Wild Thumper board.  I’m assuming this was also the problem on the windows machine I tried.  Interestingly, neither machine has any issue with any other Arduino board I’ve tried, but something about this board requires the latest version on my machines.

I am able to run the diagnostic and get the wheels to spin.  Next up is to see whether I can communicate with by serial, then RC.

thanks! imrhb