Removing the chip means you won’t accidentally bugger up the ATMEGA chip.Ĭonnect your MinimOSD to the Arduino board as follows: This way we are just passing the data through the board to the output pins. If yours is soldered directly to the board then you may still be able to continue, but you will also program the ATMEGA chip at the same time which you probably don’t want to do. But first of all, if you don’t have an Arduino Uno but other Arduino boards, you need to make sure it has a FTDI chip otherwise I am afraid you are out of luck.Ĭonnect your arduino to the computer, remember what COM port it has been assigned. Then unplug the Arduino from your PC.
Because all of the necessary pins on the FTDI chip are connected to various pins on the edge of the board, we can just connect the MinimOSD up to the right pins and away we go! No need to spend extra money on the FTDI cable! Let’s connect them
#Arduino mini usb adapter pinout Pc
The Arduino UNO has an FTDI USB-TTL chip on it to communicate between a PC and the ATMEGA chip on the board. You can buy an Arduino from Newark.Ĭonnecting Arduino with MinimOSD How does it work?Ī bit of technical background, skip if you like. I realized that you need a FTDI cable to do the programming, but if you happen to have an Arduino Uno like I do, then it’s your lucky day because you can easily turn your Arduino in to a FTDI programmer.