Arduino Nano V3 Clones using CH340 USB to serial chip e.g.

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Installing CH340G driver and Arduino IDE under Windows 8.1

These little chinese Arduino clones work really well when you install the correct USB to Serial driver, they use a CH340 USB to Serial chip rather than an FTDI chip, so need the CH340 driver to communicate with the Arduino IDE.

1 Download the driver and the Arduino IDE
2 Open the driver zip, drag a copy of the driver folder to your desktop
3 Run the driver setup program
4 Once its done connect the Arduino
5 check device manager to confirm the driver has been installed and the COM port that's been assigned to it (in this example COM3)
6 set the baud rate to 57600

7 Install the Arduino IDE
8 Fire up the Arduino IDE
9 in Tools set the board type (this one was a Nano)
10 Set the processor (ATMega328)
11 Ensure the COM port matches the Device MAnager entry (in this case COM 3)

12 load up a sketch
13 verify the sketch
14 load the sketch on to the Arduino clone

This particular sketch blinks the onboard Pin13 LED and sticks a hello world style message on the serial port every tenth LED blink, so call up the serial monitor and confirm it displays

random characters in the serial monitor? dont forget to set the Serial Monitor baud rate to match the rate set in the sketch (in this case 57600)

Voila all good to go

This demo install was carried out using a Windows 8 virtual machine through Parallels for Mac (why you'll see the OSX dock appear from time to time in the video) Doesn't have any impact on the driver installation.

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