Aric’s Tech Blog

So Creation Crate is a 12-month subscription service where they send you a package containing hardware to build interesting electronics devices. It requires coding also. You’ll get the code to type into their app or you can download the foundation files from their website. If you’re thinking about teaching your child basic coding I would recommend having them retype it in from the education book.

My child was thrilled enough he did this diligently and then we spent a few moments fixing syntax errors the compiler found. It had been a good learning experience about development debugging and essentials syntax errors for me. So first, each one of these projects are based around an Arduino Uno board as opposed to a custom Creation Crate board, which means you will be using the Arduino IDE software to program it. I’m a large fan of Raspberry Pi, and wasn’t really invested in also learning Arduino hacking but since everything is packaged together, in theory, you don’t need to become an Arduino expert or go out in Arduino forums.

I figured to save on costs the first package would include the experimenter’s breadboard and the Arduino Uno and the other 11 kits would just include the hardware specific to them. As it happens, they send you a new Arduino and breadboard with every kit. I guess they don’t want you to have to tear apart your previous project to build a new one. So is where in fact the problems start here. To be able to run this on a Mac, you need to install drivers (think printer driver or scanner driver… basically, a little program that tells your personal computer how to recognize and talk to a hardware device).

Creation Crate gives you a location to download the macOS X drivers. So what will happen? Well, I’ve tried on two different Macs and noticed somewhat different behaviors. On my MacBook Air it never provided an option to allow the driver to run in the Security & Privacy System Preference configurations so I believe it installed the documents but they weren’t allowed to ever run. So in the IDE you utilize to enter the code and publish it to the Arduino board, the plank simply never was seen and it fundamentally said there have been no devices connected in.

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BTW contact customer service about this and they will say it is probably a negative USB wire. A button specific to this driver made an appearance that asked me to allow it to run. This was nearer to the procedure I expected. So now after restarting when I plugged the Arduino panel into the USB wire the computer would immediately crash, shutdown, and restart.

This is exactly what many people are seeing. You need a newer driver. Creation Crate by the writing of the blog on 2/4/2018 is not aware of this yet and it is not supplying it. Luckily an updated driver is available for download on GitHub. You’ll find the repository with a detailed ReadMe here.

Assuming you’ve already set up the old motorists and experienced the crashing of your Mac, you’ll need to remove them first, which requires using the Terminal/command line. I restarted Then, and I could upload my program to the Arduino plank just as explained in the Creation Crate instructions. All this is detailed in the ReadMe at the link I provided above.

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