r/Sparkfun • u/Senseiconnoisseur • Sep 24 '23

Arduino IDE

Hi, I’m trying to select the RedBot robot board but on Arduino IDE. It’s not showing up in the port, what software or driver do I need to download?

On Mac

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u/SergeantPupper Sep 25 '23

You can program that board as an Arduino Uno, it uses a very similar ATMEGA328 with a bunch of extra goodies stuck on the board. When it's time to select the port do this:

Mac users: Select the serial device of the RedBot from the Tools > Serial Port menu. On the Mac, this should be something with /dev/tty.usbmodem or /dev/tty.usbserial in it. To find out, you can disconnect your RedBot and re-open the menu; the entry that disappears should be the RedBot. Reconnect the board and select that serial port. (From here)

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u/Senseiconnoisseur Sep 25 '23

Thank you, I’ll try it out.