DaveG

Hi Shannon,

Thank you once again for your thoughtful and thorough reply – as well as for your patience and understanding of my Mayfly ignorance for not having attended a workshop.

I greatly appreciate you sharing your time and knowledge.  Your reply above is quite helpful.

The board already has corrosion issues on the main chip- likely…[Read more]

It’s ALIVE!

St. Patrick’s Day miracle…

Chip cleaned with 91% but still a bit corroded – but Adafruit CP2104 manually attached (not soldered) and iMac picked up the com port, I adjusted baud rate until gibberish became legible.  Will have the adapter soldered together and we should have a working machine.

Thanks so much for your time and help!

Dave

Thanks, Shannon.

I’ll try to clean it up a bit this afternoon but I think the corrosion is pretty bad – based on the image.

I’ll keep an eye out on Amazon to see when the single boards become available.

Thank you again for your time and help.

Dave

Hi Shannon,

We got the Adafruit adapter and sent it and the board to a local university where our intern is from to have the engineering dept. do the soldering.  A couple of issues came up.  One is that the pattern on the Adafruit adapter doesn’t match the screen printing on the board… but the bigger issue is that the artel/main chip looks l…[Read more]

Hi Shannon,

I replaced the battery with a new one when I started this process of trying to revive the Mayfly.  The original battery may have still been good, but it was several years old and the unit has been sitting for a year or so – so I figured it would be best to start fresh with a new battery.

The board doesn’t have a modem so time…[Read more]

Hi Shannon,

Thanks for the info.  I downloaded the drivers at the link provided and restarted my computer but still no additional ports appear when Arduino is open and the mayfly is connected, turned on.

I’ve ordered a new micro usb/usb-c data cable that should be arriving today.  This will let me check on 2 variables; 1) it will allow me to h…[Read more]

Thanks.  I’ve done everything the video shows already, but there is no additional port popping up when I turn on the mayfly.

I’ve tried unsuccessfully to download and install drivers from the tutorial – some of the links were bad and then if I could download a driver, the installation was blocked b/c extension issue.

This is way over my head and I am so grateful for your time and help but I feel like I am just going in a circle

ok, I just downloaded Arduino yesterday.  Should I maybe try the beta version for the latest update?

I don’t have any other ports as options to select.  The only other thing it says is “serial ports” but that is greyed out and not able to be selected.

Understood.  I added Arduino to programs that can open ports/get past firewall on the Mac but is still only showing the same bluetooth port info for the Mayfly.  I just did a quick search online and other folks have been having this problem too.

Dunnoh.

so I thought I’d try it with the micro sd card removed… then I captured the following images of the Arduino program and the serial monitor – but still no port prompt, although mayfly appears to be “seen”

I was not able to get Blink uploaded – even at the baud rate recommended.  I verified it but still got the same “not in sync” error message as above

The serial monitor does not show any text but the boards manager shows Mayfly 1284p.

I’ve tried 3 different micro usb cables and none of them have had the Mac ask for a port for the Mayfly

I’m sorry, I’m not getting it to work.  It seems like I am missing something simple but I’m still just getting the same error message as before.  I tried doing the blink tutorial and it didn’t work – serial monitor didn’t show anything even when switched to 9600 baud – and still had the same error message.

Then I followed the steps above and am s…[Read more]

Thank you.  I’ll check out the tutorial.

There are preloaded sketches for temp, depth, turbidity, and conductivity from the board’s previous deployment.

I set the baud rate following the instructions in the on-line mayfly manual.  I’ll go over your tutorial and let you know if that succeeded in smartening me up.

thanks again!

I’m using Arduino 1.8.19.

I’ve tried uploading a sketch (various ones) and get a not in sync error message that repeats 10x.  Entire error message below…

Now don’t kick me, but I don’t know what “looking at it through a serial monitor” means.  I do have it set to 57600 baud.

the port reads as follows (on my MacBook) p…[Read more]

<div>Hi Beth,</div>
<div>No kicking involved when folks are trying to help!</div>
<div>I have tried toggling the on/off switch… no luck.</div>
<div>The leds do their flashy bit to let me know that the device is alive in there somewhere – and the amber light glows brightly to show that the battery is charging – but no communication b/t pc or…[Read more]