I have reached the position in throttle build where I get totally confused, that is the wiring / arduino set up. I have tried to follow Karls guide to the arduino card joystick set up but keep getting error messages whilst running the Arduino IDE.
Really looking for anyone that can give advice to a arduino dummy in very basic terms. It would be a real shame to have built this wonderful throttle unit to just use it as a desk ornament 😀😪
Any help really appreciated
cheers
Steve
Just going to run 6 axis as I have not built the trim wheels due space restrictions.
Awesome! I wouldn't have thought of that one, I'm guessing you have power cables rather than data cable perhaps? But really pleased its workling for you. How many axis are you going to try an run off one board?
All sorted and the culprit was the usb cable. I tried 3 cables more out of frustration than knowledge and it worked. I have uploaded the sketch and the card now shows as a game controller. All thats left (and its a big all) is to assign commands to flightsim.
Thanks Karl for all your projects I'm already looking for the next thing to build, great website and help cheers.
Hi Karl
Tried the leave plugged in and still nothing shows in COM ports. Tried the unit on another PC and a laptop and it just does not show. There is power as the green led on the board lights up and I get power to my backlit leds but just no COM port.??????
Hi Steve, Yes I think you are right. Leave the board attached and plugged in. Restart your computer and let the com port manager re assign the com ports. Check that the unit is displaying in the device manager. I had this problem at one point, but it went away. If you have a laptop try uploading the sketch on that. Its s shame things like this happen, it turns such a simple process into somebodies worse nightmare that drags out. Kind Regards Karl
Think its a com port issue as the board does not show in device manager
All reconnected as per wiring diagram however still getting arduino error message :-
Arduino: 1.8.13 (Windows 7), Board: "Arduino Leonardo"
Sketch uses 8520 bytes (29%) of program storage space. Maximum is 28672 bytes.
Global variables use 298 bytes (11%) of dynamic memory, leaving 2262 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2560 bytes.
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
Found programmer: Id = "�"; type = �
SoftwareVersion = (. ; Hardware Version = . 0
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
Problem uploading to board. See htto://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Troubleshooting#uload for suggestions.
avrdude: error: buffered memory access not supported> Maybe it isn't a butterfly/AVR109 but a AVR910 device?
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override this check.
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: error: programmer did not respond to command: leave prog mode
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: error: programmer did not respond to command: exit bootloader
As I have said before this section is way outside my comfort level so any help gratefully received,
cheers
Steve
Hi Steve, What error messages are you getting?