Yosemite + Redboard

Development Boards Arduino
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Has anyone had any luck getting their Redboard to work with Yosemite. I have been diligently trying all evening.

I get the error - avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

I have attempted to disabled the Apple drivers and install the original drivers to no avail. I was preparing for a session for our Maker club - I have 23 SIKs coming where half the participants in our session will be on MACs.

I was able to use the same MAC to upload to my Arduino boards as well as use Windows 7 via Parallels on the same MAC to upload a sketch. But the MAC itself will not upload any sketches.

I have also tried multiple different USB cords, different USB ports.

I was able to squeeze an upload up by playing around with the reset button while it was trying to upload, but this is not consistent or a viable solution for our maker session.

Thanks for reading…

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I have the same problem. I have not found a solution.

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Hi,

I had to download this version of Java

http://download.info.apple.com/Mac_OS_X … 14-001.dmg

and then reinstall the FTDI driver

http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP/Mac … 2_2_18.dmg

Rebooted and it worked.

Steve

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stevenice:
Hi,

I had to download this version of Java

http://download.info.apple.com/Mac_OS_X … orOSX2014- 001.dmg

and then reinstall the FTDI driver

http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP/Mac … 2_2_18.dmg

Rebooted and it worked.

Steve

Thanks, Steve! This also solved my (similar) problem for the Digital Sandbox.

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Just adding that the latest version of Java (not the package linked below) plus the FTDI driver will work for the “avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding” uploading error for OS X 10.10.5 and Sparkfun Red Board (Arduino Uno).

Thanks again to Steve!