3. Connecting the Arduino To Your Computer

Now that we’ve successfully set up Arduino IDE and installed our drivers, we can finally connect our Arduino board to the computer!

Use the provided USB-A to Micro-USB cable to connect the ESP32 to your computer as shown here.

On Windows:

1. Open Arduino IDE.

2. On the left side of the screen, open the Boards Manager tab .
3. Search "esp32" in the Search bar, and then select INSTALL on the esp32 by Espressif Systems.

1. Once the installation is complete, click on "Select Board".

1. Click on "Select other board and port..."

2. Type "esp" in the search bar, and find the board entitled "ESP32 Dev Module". Press OK.

1. Now, download the FBX Arduino Code (attached below), and open it in Arduino IDE by pressing File > Open...

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FBX_Code_V2.ino

Upon attempting to open this file, you will see the following dialogue window pop up. Press OK.

After a few seconds, you should now have the FBX code open in Arduino IDE!

Before we can upload this code to the ESP32, we must first configure the ssid variable within the code to match the Serial Number (SNO) of your specific FBX.

1. On Windows, press CTRL + F to activate the Find function in Arduino IDE.

2. In the Find popup, type "FBX-". There should only be one instance of this text in the entire code.

Change the ssid value to match the SNO written on your FBX's Microcontroller. For instance, if my FBX has "FBX-RC99" as its SNO, I would change the line:

const char* ssid = "FBX-RC57"; to const char* ssid = "FBX-RC99";