The Serial Port option under Tools is lighted out (rendered not usable – i.e. can’t get to it with mouse as is lighter than the other options it just “sits” there…
Compiling allways goes well and is fine.
UPLOAD is the problem:
The messaGE READS:
“see attached badly rendered image file”
download/file.php?mode=view&id=2106
Still, using board: leonardo, even though it is in fact zumo robot with leonardo platform stuck to its bottom (read: “digital pretty but useless Italian…” Is it from Torino, Milano, Fiat, Vennice or Trieste maybe???
However at the bottom of ARDUINO IDE GUI it allways reads:
see attachment2
I propose the following solution to the problem (which is poping up all over internet like mashrooms after rain, formulated a bit different to mine, such as usb cable b or a for zumo with leonardo, or zumo with uno won’t run on IDE, the problem seems to be ACM0…wouldn’t get into discussion on ACM0 for million Swiss Franks…, and similar!!!
Dear Sir.
Write a letter to Your Programming HQ (You can do that, I persume, being an Arduino employee)
Dear Sir/Madam;
Can You do a patch to ARDUINO IDE to include Zumo robot with leonardo and zumo robot with uno as 2 new board choices.
NOTE:
A good programmer can do that in 20 minutes, just make sure he has fully assembeled robots with him, both!!!
I think this is the only way to start zumo – I am even loosing the impulsive wish to see it burning rubber after uploading some sketch with wheel s and motors…
Even though, I fully assembled the device from parts I ordered from Netwark14 They charged my transport fee 240 USD…I didn’t wanna pay, and returned it to Post HQ, however my sweet doughter rang them and requested to resend the package, i.e contributing somewhat with cash…etc…to cut a long story short, in instructions they have pictorial tricks making things appear upside down, once makimng me cut of the power plug from leonardo–neatly it shouldn’t make any probs (should it?) and the three welded things sticking high next to it…but when you plug it it lights up like all is fine and leonardo is not damaged just these two irrelevant things removed…then realised it sticks in the other way aroud and there wqas no need for thet crap to be done…sometimes we just in a hurry (bieliving the instructions which are full of intellect bugs) want to complete the thing especially if your welder is 5 mm thick and even though 60 Watt virtually useless for high precission work on these micro development platforms. So went to local Asian maRKET and got two 1/2 mm tip welders for 2 EURO. The 60 Watt is all powerfull and good looking, costing me 50 EURO, still uses lead-free solder to be used in electronics, what else so it is still an electronics solderer but sooooo thick - 5 milimeters, that covers three holes in leonardo. so i even managed to burn my self 3 times due to wrong instructions (pictures misleading) - why do they do that? and pretty and expensive shit for a solder tool. I have a bright blinking, working robot, despite all setbacks, but the software obviously needs a patch or are we going to chit chat for forums milenium, to find this out. NO, NO. NO, if you think you have a solution go ahead thats why I posted the question - I want to see it running not just red/blue led sparkling bright alight.
So, the letter requesting a patch to be made available for ubuntu Germany server (uniBerlin or Berlin something) 13.10 version or SuSE which sadly has none of ARDUINO IDE versions in its repositories, so being a good guy I also give you this information to pass onto SuSE so we can have it on this distro too.
When writing mention Boris from
onlineshoppercomputers
and give my opinion that zumo seems to be a surprise for all-set other side of robotics, like that 289 EURO Robot Arduino which looks kool on videos. I bet this one can recognise its port, but budget robots can’t. Not so good for FSF Linux and so on…
or let us continue discussion.
One question, has anyone built zumo, used Linux Arduino IDE to run it succsessfully all on their end-user-own? Bet, No??!!!
Tnx, Boris