Hi,
Although I’m mechanical engineer this is my first exploration into programming. I bought the makeblock ultimate kit but cannot get anything to work, in fact I cannot even get the firmware to download onto the Orion board. Im am not sure if this is port set up issue with my pc (although I have downloaded the drivers) or if its a problem with the board in some way, although it does have the red power light illuminated no blue lite flashes when I try to download anything to it. Can you help with any basic idiot guide fault finding or potential solutions. Although I have spent nearly 10 hours no going through the makeblock forum and the best answer I can find is I need an uno board to download firmware from that !!!
Please help as I’m at the point of throwing expensive things across the room ;0)
Thanks,
Barry
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Hi,
The Makeblock Orion is a mainboard based on Arduino Uno, so you don’t need to download the firmware via a separate Arduino Uno board. All you need to get started :
] Install the driver ( you said you did it, but just to be sure raw.githubusercontent.com/Makeblock-official/Makeblock-USB-Driver/master/Makeblock_Driver_Installer.zip ) /:m]
] Download the Arduino IDE ( arduino.cc/download_handler.php?f=/arduino-1.6.3-windows.exe )/:m]
] Connect the Orion board on your computer with a micro-USB cable ( comes with the kit )./:m]
You should be able to download Arduino sketchs to the Orion board. Here is a short guide on how to programming the Orion buzzer to test the board.
Hope this helps,
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Orion buzzer sketch.pdf (238 KB)
Use mBlock 5 to configure board.
