Pololu A-Star 32U4 User Manual

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The Windows 8 Device Manager in “Devices by connection” mode, showing that

the A-Star is a composite device.

On a Linux computer, you can see details about the A-Star’s USB interface by running

lsusb -v -d 1ffb:

in a

Terminal. The virtual serial port can be found by running

ls /dev/ttyACM*

in a Terminal.

On a Mac OS X computer, the virtual serial port can be found by running

ls /dev/tty.usbmodem*

in a Terminal.

You can send and receive bytes from an A-Star’s virtual serial port using any terminal program that supports
serial ports. Some examples are the Serial Monitor in Arduino IDE, the

Pololu Serial Transmitter Utility

[http://www.pololu.com/docs/0J23]

,

Br@y

Terminal

[http://sites.google.com/site/terminalbpp/]

,

PuTTY

[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/]

,

TeraTerm

[http://ttssh2.sourceforge.jp/]

,

Kermit

[http://www.columbia.edu/

kermit/ck80.html]

, and

GNU Screen

[http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/]

. Many computer programming environments also

support sending and receiving bytes from a serial port.

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