I hit a wall i am building a 3D printed RC forklift that uses an arduino esp32 I can not seem to find any port that its located on. Im a beginner at arduino but would love to learn more!
Looking for help!
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I think the battlebots group uses a similar setup.
If you are using the arduino IDE programmer, you may have to make sure the appropriate plugin is downloaded for your specific esp32.
It’s been a while since i’ve played with them, but i would think once you got the plugin setup, that you should see a windows message pop up saying something like ‘new device detected’ and be able to find the port from the message.
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Drop pics of your setup. Maybe we can see something you don’t.
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I think the battlebots group uses a similar setup.
If you are using the arduino IDE programmer, you may have to make sure the appropriate plugin is downloaded for your specific esp32.
It’s been a while since i’ve played with them, but i would think once you got the plugin setup, that you should see a windows message pop up saying something like ‘new device detected’ and be able to find the port from the message.
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Port is greyed out non selectable
Im fairly confident if i get the pc to communicate with the board i will get the rest figured out
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That usb cable has programmed modules before?
I mistrust white usb cables, some are power only…
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I haven’t looked that much, but one thing I did notice is that it’s a esp32c3 board in arduino, and you’ve got a esp-wroom32. The earlier esp32s use an xtensa architechure, and the newer ones like the c3 use RISC-V. (think x86 vs arm) So changing the board to the correct one should at least get you started. (A board which might work, would be either the wroom32, or possibly the esp32-s if it’s in the dropdown.)
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I wondered that too on cable
This is the board im using:
ESP-WROOM-32 ESP32 ESP-32S Development Board 2.4GHz Dual-Mode WiFi + Bluetooth Dual Cores Microcontroller Processor Integrated with Antenna RF AMP Filter AP STA Compatible with Arduino IDE (3PCS)
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power only usb cables often only have the outer two pins on the USB A end. Having all 4 pins doesn’t guarantee data is connected, but checking is quick and if you are missing the middle two pins you can be sure your cable is an issue.
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Bring it by Electronics any Sunday, 3-5pm, and I’ll try to connect to it. I’d like to see your model forklift too.
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I got the cable in today that was the problem all my cables were charge only.
Thanks for info I got the sketch uploaded.
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