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Published inMay 2013
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ISBN-139781849517584
Edition1st Edition
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Julien Bayle
Julien Bayle
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Julien Bayle

Julien Bayle owns his Master Degree of biology & computer sciences in 2000. After several years in pure IT System Design, he founded Design the Media early 2010 in order to provide his own courses, training & tools for art fields. As a digital artist, he designed some huge new media art installations, like the permanent exhibition of La Maison des Cinématographies de la Méditerranée (Château de la Buzine) in Marseille, France, in 2011. He also works as a new media technology consultant for some private & public entities. As an A/V live performer, he plays his cold electronic music from New York to Marseille, where he actually lives. Arduino framework is one of his first electronic hardware studies early 2005 and he designed the famous protodeck controller with some opensource framework too. As an art & technology teacher, also certified by Ableton in 2010, he teaches a lot of courses about the digital audio workstation named Ableton Live, about the real-time graphical programming framework Max6 and also about Processing and Arduino. As a minimalist digital artist, he works at the crossroads of sound, visual and data. He explores relationships between sounds and visuals through his immersive A/V installations, his live performances and his released music. His work, often described as “complex, intrigating and relevant”, tries to break classical codes to bring audience a new vision of our world through his pure digital and real-time generated stimuli. He's deeply involved in the open source community and loves to share and provide workshops and masterclasses online and on-site too. His personal website is http://julienbayle.net.
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Installing Arduino drivers

Arduino boards provide an USB interface. Before we plug the USB cable and link the board to our computer, we have to install specific drivers in the latter.

There is a huge difference between Windows and OS X here; basically, OS X doesn't require any specific drivers for Arduino Uno or even Mega 2560. If you are using older boards, you'd have to download the latest version of drivers on the FTDI website, double-click the package, then follow instructions, and finally, restart your computer.

Let's describe how it works on Windows-based systems, I mean, Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

Installing drivers for Arduino Uno R3

It is important to follow the steps mentioned next to be able to use the Arduino Uno R3 and some other boards. Please check the Arduino website for up-to-date references.

  1. Plug your board in and wait for Windows to begin the driver installation process. After a few moments, the process fails.

  2. Click on the Start menu, and open Control Panel.

  3. In Control Panel, navigate to System and Security. Next, click on System. Once the System window is up, open Device Manager.

  4. Look under Ports (COM & LPT). Check the open port named Arduino UNO (COMxx).

  5. Right-click on the Arduino UNO (COMxx) port and choose the Update Driver Software option.

  6. Next, choose the Browse my computer for driver software option.

  7. Finally, navigate and select the Uno's driver file, named ArduinoUNO.inf, located in the Drivers folder of the Arduino software download (be careful: not the FTDI USB Drivers subdirectory).

  8. Windows will finish the driver installation from there and everything will be fine.

Installing drivers for Arduino Duemilanove, Nano, or Diecimilla

When you connect the board, Windows should initiate the driver installation process (if you haven't used the computer with an Arduino board before).

On Windows Vista, the driver should be automatically downloaded and installed. (Really, it works!)

On Windows XP, the Add New Hardware wizard will open:

  1. When asked Can Windows connect to Windows Update to search for software? select No, not this time. Click on Next.

  2. Select Install from a list or specified location (Advanced) and click on Next.

  3. Make sure that Search for the best driver in these locations is checked, uncheck Search removable media, check Include this location in the search, and browse to the drivers/FTDI USB Drivers directory of the Arduino distribution. (The latest version of the drivers can be found on the FTDI website.) Click on Next.

  4. The wizard will search for the driver and then tell you that a USB Serial Converter was found. Click on Finish.

  5. The new hardware wizard will appear again. Go through the same steps and select the same options and location to search. This time, a USB Serial Port will be found.

You can check that the drivers have been installed by opening Windows Device Manager (in the Hardware tab of the System control panel). Look for a USB Serial Port in the Ports section; that's the Arduino board.

Now, our computer can recognize our Arduino board. Let's move to the physical world a bit to join together the tangible and intangible worlds.

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Author (1)

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Julien Bayle

Julien Bayle owns his Master Degree of biology & computer sciences in 2000. After several years in pure IT System Design, he founded Design the Media early 2010 in order to provide his own courses, training & tools for art fields. As a digital artist, he designed some huge new media art installations, like the permanent exhibition of La Maison des Cinématographies de la Méditerranée (Château de la Buzine) in Marseille, France, in 2011. He also works as a new media technology consultant for some private & public entities. As an A/V live performer, he plays his cold electronic music from New York to Marseille, where he actually lives. Arduino framework is one of his first electronic hardware studies early 2005 and he designed the famous protodeck controller with some opensource framework too. As an art & technology teacher, also certified by Ableton in 2010, he teaches a lot of courses about the digital audio workstation named Ableton Live, about the real-time graphical programming framework Max6 and also about Processing and Arduino. As a minimalist digital artist, he works at the crossroads of sound, visual and data. He explores relationships between sounds and visuals through his immersive A/V installations, his live performances and his released music. His work, often described as “complex, intrigating and relevant”, tries to break classical codes to bring audience a new vision of our world through his pure digital and real-time generated stimuli. He's deeply involved in the open source community and loves to share and provide workshops and masterclasses online and on-site too. His personal website is http://julienbayle.net.
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