This board was designed to decrease the cost of Arduino development and increase ease of use (the auto-reset feature rocks!). You can actually see serial traffic on the LEDs to verify if the board is working. This board has TX and RX LEDs that make it a bit better to use over the FTDI cable. Use these BLK and GRN pins to align the FTDI basic board with your Arduino target. The black wire on the FTDI cable is GND, green is CTS. The pins labeled BLK and GRN correspond to the colored wires on the FTDI cable. This board will auto reset any Arduino board that has the reset pin brought out to a 6-pin connector.Īrduino Pro Mini with FTDI Basic Breakout board This is a really nice feature to have and allows a sketch to be downloaded without having to hit the reset button. The DTR pin allows an Arduino target to auto-reset when a new Sketch is downloaded. The major difference with this board is that it brings out the DTR pin as opposed to the RTS pin of the FTDI cable. It can also be used for general serial applications. The pinout of this board matches the FTDI cable to work with official Arduino and cloned 5V Arduino boards. Here’s how to enable Analog Stick support.Ĭomment below if this tutorial works for you or not.This is a basic breakout board for the FTDI FT232RL USB to serial IC.

You should see “Done uploading.” at the bottom if it’s successful.

Finally, click the Upload button or press CTR + U to flash/program the Pro Micro.

Click on Tools again, choose Port and the port used by your Pro Micro.

Now on Arduino IDE, click on Tools > Board > Arduino Leonardo.Take note of the COM port number used by the device (COM9 in this example). Plugin in the Pro Micro with a micro usb data cable and let Windows install the device.A message should appear at the bottom telling you that “ Library added to your libraries. ZIP Library…, browse to the zip file you downloaded and click Open. On Arduino IDE, click on Sketch > Include Library > Add.

Now let’s install the Arduino Joystick Library.

Run the software, create a new file, copy and paste the code from.

First, download and install the latest Arduino IDE at.

This tutorial should work on any Arduino Leonardo compatible board like the Sparkfun Pro Micro and the most popular Arduino Pro Micro compatible board.

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