Anybody have the USB port on their arduino go bad?
I’ve got intermittent failures that looks like a bad USB cable. On three different cables. One thing I’ve noticed is that there is a lot of wobble in the connector. I think 9 months of having the cable come around to the front of the printer has messed it up.
Is there something I can do to fix this? Replace the port? Shim the side with a bit of paper?
I’ve experienced some low end PCs (like Dells), especially laptops, to not have enough juice on the USB ports to keep a good data connection. You might want to try a different computer. Macs are usually higher on the USB specs (to charge iPads faster maybe), try a Mac or a desktop PC if you have access to one.
I was using one of those. Mostly to keep certain curious 2 year olds from sneaking around where she doesn’t belong and stepping on the cable and causing bad things to happen.
I’ve traced it to the arduino port. The plastic shim seems to work. I guess I’d printed a fix for USB issues. Who’d have thought.