Hey there,
just bought a Plotter yesterday. Everything was assembled without any problem. But I won´t get it work wir my Mac & El Capitan. When I´m connecting the board with my Mac there is no new interface and i can´t control the plotter. Could anyone help my with the driver?
Thanks in advance
@el-kai Have you had any success? What program are you trying to use to interface with the plotter?
Got it working now. Here are some problems I ran across and how I fixed them:
When trying to upload the firmware via Arduino the board did not show up, this is due to a change in Mac OS X 10.11 – El Capitan. You have to install a signed driver for the chip. You can buy one for 7$ – HL-340 / CH-340 / CH-341 Driver or use this free one: CH34x_Install.zip. If you want to uninstall either of them use uninstallpkg.
Afterwards the board should show up in Arduino.
When the board showed up in Arduino I uploaded the firmware to the board and had Leonardo selected. I got the message Upload successful, but it didn’t work. I am using the Orion Board (look at the back of the mainboard) and had to select Uno in Arduino.
As the motors consume a lot of power your power supply has to be strong enough. I tried with a 1500mAh power supply which did not work. I had to use an US —> EU adapter to use the power supply from the kit.
At first not the full graphical user interface was shown in GRemote. After I changed the power supply and selected the right board it was showing up.
It is printing now…