Getting cheap china arduinos with CH340 chipset to work.

Not an Anything Arduino video, but still has to do with Arduinos so... :)

UPDATE: So the driver error seems to mostly be a problem on Windows 7 machines with older Arduinos (like my 1.0.5r2). Windows 10 with IDE 1.6 seems to work fine for most people...

The really cheap Arduinos on ebay and Amazon has replaced the ATMega16u4 USB interface with the CH340. This creates a problem when you want to use the arduinos in the IDE. I show how to download the driver for CH340 and make sure the Arduino works. Please know that the soldering on these Arduinos is really bad, and chances are that even with the right driver, the Arduinos might not work anyways... You get what you pay for. If possible try to buy from official Arduino partners.

Link to the driver that I used in this video to get the Arduinos to work:
http://sparks.gogo.co.nz/ch340.html

Hope this helps someone...

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