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Enrico Turco edited this page Sep 4, 2019
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Download the Arduino IDE 1.6.12
- Unzip/Install the Arduino IDE on your computer
- Run the Arduino IDE to create the Arduino folders
- Close the Arduino IDE to get ready for the Tools and Library installation
In most versions of Linux, you can just plug your board in via USB and everything will work, but it is very quiet about it, not giving you any notification that the device is ready. There are many ways to check this, the easiest being to open the Arduino IDE and check under Serial Port for ttyUSB0, but we'd like to show you an easy and definitive way you can check in a terminal.
- Open up a terminal window. You can usually find the Terminal application under:
Applications -> System Tools (or Utilities) -> Terminal
- Once you have a terminal open, you can list out the serial ports. To do this type:
ls /dev | grep ttyU
This will list the contents of the /dev directory that start with 'ttyU'. Once you hit enter, this command should return:
ttyUSB0
- Remove the XBee module from the ArbotiX-M board
The XBee and the FTDI port share a hardware serial port. This means that you can only have one of these devices connected at a time.
- Plug the FTDI-USB cable as shown in the figure
- Check that the power jumper is in this configuration
This allow you to power the ArbotiX-M from the external power supply
- Plug the external battery to the board
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