FLORA - CAN'T CONNECT

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FLORA - CAN'T CONNECT

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i'm stymied. i have 2 trinkets and a flora - am just trying to get them up and running. i installed codebender on a windows 8 machine. it's new. it works great with an Uno, and I got the trinkets to connect, but the FLORA won't cooperate.

i always get the windows message that the usb device isn't recognized. sometimes in codebender it will see the com port for a few seconds, but never long enough to do anything.

thoughts on how to troubleshoot?

thanks!
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Re: FLORA - CAN'T CONNECT

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Do the LEDs on the Flora do anything? Does the red LED start to pulse when you press reset?

Have you tried a different USB cable?

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Re: FLORA - CAN'T CONNECT

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thanks.

the green light comes on.
the red light blinks when I hit reset

the USB cable works with my Pixy (http://charmedlabs.com/default/?page_id=211)

whenever I plug it in, i get the "USB Device not recognized" error from Windows

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Re: FLORA - CAN'T CONNECT

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It sounds like the Flora is working. I'd try a different cable anyway - the one you have may be marginal.

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Re: FLORA - CAN'T CONNECT

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Did you download and install the drivers as shown here?https://learn.adafruit.com/getting-star ... d-software

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Re: FLORA - CAN'T CONNECT

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appreciate the suggestions everyone ... haven't solved this one, but am retiring for the hunt for now. I can get the trinket running fine, and an arduino, which seems like enough for the moment.

Codebender has been easy to use by the way - I find it preferable to the arduino IDE.

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