DigiSpark Startup

[last updated: 2021-02-27]
go to: Digispark home page
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Setup:

Great startup tutorial/wiki: (link to:) digiStump.com
Another excellent source: (link to:) startingElectronics.org

• install/open Arduino IDE
• open easy blink or whatever program
• select Tools > Board > Digispark (Default - 16.5mhz)
• if Digispark is not on the list
  Add board:
• in IDE: Files > Preferences > Additional Boards Manager URLs:
• enter: http://digistump.com/package_digistump_index.json
  and click OK (you must have an active internet connection...)
• in IDE: Tools > Board > Boards Manager
  confirm Digistump AVR Boards is installed. Click Install if not already installed.
  [2019/09/05 on Dell Tower, Digistump version 1.6.7 was installed]
  [2021/02/27 on Dell-4600, Digistump version 1.6.7 was installed]
• Close and restart IDE
• Tools > Board > Digispark (Default - 16.5 mhz)
• Dell tower Status: [2019-09-06] Digispark board shows up in IDE board list, but uploading programs fails, presumably because I have not installed the driver, because my winzip has expired...
• (maybe...) In Dell-4600: Now board shows up in Tools > Boards,
  but after connecting and powering the DigiSpark, Tools > Port is blank ...
  needs driver?
• Join dialout group:
  Make sure you are in the dialout group:
  $ whoami ... to get current user name
  $ groups [userName] ... shows list of groups to which you belong
  If the dialout group is not in the list, then join it with:
  $ sudo adduser $USER dialout

• Create 49-micronucleus.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/
  It must have the following lines:
  SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16d0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0753", MODE:="0666"
  KERNEL=="ttyACM*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16d0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0753", MODE:="0666", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1"

• $ sudo apt-get install libusb-dev ?????

• Install driver: [perhaps only needed for W-10]
• download driver zip file from here:
• https://github.com/digistump/DigistumpArduino/releases/download/1.6.7/Di...
• This is a .zip file. Download options are to save to disk or to open with Archive Manager (default) (open IDE first?)
  On both Dell and Linux, selected to open with Archive Manager
  [But these following notes are for option to save to disk...]
  Digistump.Drivers.zip box opens
  select Extract
  [on Linux...]
  Extract box opens, with Home-Jay directory structure listed.
  (this time I tried...) double-click Arduino
  click Extract; "Extraction Completed Successfully" message
  clicked "show files"; double-click Digistump Drivers folder
  double-click: Install Drivers.exe; box opened too briefly to read, then closed.
• Install Digispark in Linux:
• The Digispark board is listed in the Tools > boards list. Selected it ... ... ...
• Unlike other Arduino boards, Tools > Serial Port and Tools > Programmer do not seem to be needed

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Programming: