"Is there a limit as to how many LEDs can be plugged into one socket on the board"?. I am in no way an electronics expert but whilst mucking about about with the board I have (subsequently discovered it is a copy of an Arduino but it works for me) there ended being a medusa type mass of wires connected to the board.I have shelved the 1701E after a bummer of a weekend but plan on using the board on my next build but plan on just having x4 red/green nav lights and at the most x4 strobes (probably only two) and I wondered if it would be safe enough to wire up the 2 circuits to only one corresponding hole/s on the board. Like it would be on a Tena board with the navs wired up to x1 +/- connection and so on with the strobes?
Have you tried plugging it in? I would think that Windows would already have a driver for it - you probably don't need to download a special one, unless it's not an Arduino board clone.
There the same ones that Gadgetron bought. Got the EBay link from his post. Maybe that's why nothing happened when I tried to download the driver, it may already be there.
Very nice work Gadgetron_3000,wish I had the knowledge how to work with Arduino,the only really good thing I am fairly good at is building computers which I been doing for the last 5 to 6 years now at least for myself the landlords and a couple friends I know..Keep up the great work my good friend..
Quote from: pakratt840 on March 22, 2015, 09:18:59 pmThere the same ones that Gadgetron bought. Got the EBay link from his post. Maybe that's why nothing happened when I tried to download the driver, it may already be there.Check Device Manager in Windows. If the drivers auto-installed like what happened with me, then you should see something like the following:If you see that, you won't need to download or manually install the drivers.
Nope, it's not there. Guess I can try again.
Boyd just put me onto this section of the forum last night (Labor Day Weekend 2015) hangout, so please excuse my lateness to the party.I just bought a few of these on eBay (look like your pic on page 1), but am wondering if I'm the only Mac user here. Connected the board via USB - got steady on and blinking lights. Tried to use Arduino program, but it won't recognize the USB connection in the Port menu.Installed the FTBI USB driver, restarted the program and the computer, still nothing USB in the Port menu.Installed the CH341 driver, restarted the program and the computer, still nothing USB in the Port menu.Using OS X.9.5.If this doesn't work, guess my only lit kits will be with lighting kits, as I can't seem to get electronics/wiring down.Or I could just sell off my stash...