FYP2 : Week 6

Troubleshoot Arduino Nano Code Burning Error

Objective : 

• To investigate the problem of Arduino Nano

• To troubleshoot the Arduino Nano

Activity: I did googled and tried few solution steps that provided from this youtube video  : YouTube 5 Most Common Arduino Nano Problem which shown fews problems and its steps of solution which are :

1. Missing serial communication drivers
2. Improper port selection
3. Improper board setting
4. Missing Boatloader
5. Static damaged

Some of the steps I had tried and did not work to my Arduino Nano. The step that working on my Arduino Nano shown that it missing or using an old boatloader. So, I had used Master-Slave way to burn the new boatloader to my Arduino Nano.

Figure 1 Connection between Master and Slave

A working Arduino UNO as the Master burned the new boatloader by using ArduinoISP. It used coding from examples> ArduinoISP and select Tools and choose setting :

Board:Arduino UNO

Programmer : Arduino as ISP

Then, choose Burn Boatloader which also under Tools. This to burn the boatloader code into Slave which was Arduino Nano. Proper steps are shown in this website under "Missing Boatloader" problem : Arduino Nano Clone Problems and Their Solutions . After I did this solution, the problem settled and I can burn any coding as usual.

Conclusion : The problem of cannot burn coding from software Arduino IDE into Arduino Nano had been found and settled down. There are many solution that have in open source in internet. So, try and eror process need to be done to troubleshoot the problem.