Troubleshooting and Overcoming Challenges with Chinese Arduino CH340 Boards

🤔 Why I am making a post about this particular model? because I've entered the world of arduino recently and I already got a lot of problems with this model. As I noticed with the few lectures I made, the arduino uno ch340 is a fake one (chinese copy) which has a few issues with being detected by the computer, so after saying this I'm going to make a short guide on how I managed to make it work (at least in linux, sorry windows users).

☑️ Validate that our model is the correct one

First of all make sure your model is the CH340G which looks something like this ->
Once we confirmed our model is the correct we are going to continue!

⬇️ Get the drivers

Drivers are download from here

Inside the zip is a README.md

💾 Installing the latest IDE

Now is time to download the latest IDE from https://www.arduino.cc/en/software
Is going to be an AppImage so we need to give permissions to it.

chmod +x ./<file>
# Then we run it
./<AppImage>

You can also create an alias in your .bashrc (or anything you are using, in my case zshrc) something like this ->

cd
vim .zshrc
# Add this line
alias arduino="Path to AppImage"
# Then we source it
source .zshrc
# And run it with our newest alias
arduino

After all of this we aren't sure yet is our arduino board is going to be working or not in the IDE, so is time to test it!

😊 Run your first program

The first time you open the IDE is going to look like this ->

FIRST

Now we want to click where it says Select Board and there we are going to find the following things

Arduino Uno
USB Serial Port

It should look something like this ->

SECOND

Then we click OK to save it

Next thing is going to be that we wrote our code! I'll leave it a simple example of Hello World in another file in this gist, so copy it from there and paste it there.

Then we have something like this ->

THIRD

We click the two icons which are to compile and upload and we should get something like this ->

FOUR

And for the last thing we have to click in the Serial Monitor icon which is in the top right corner (The right one of the two)

FIVE

Then we got something like this in our console! ->

FINAL

And there it is! Our hello world is there, enjoy our chinese arduino!

Troubleshooting and Overcoming Challenges with Chinese Arduino CH340 Boards

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