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Storm 32 board on a gimbal help
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:29 pm
by rsbkh
I'm trying to flash the firmware on my storm 32 gimbal controller. I have an FTDI board plugged in to do this. Problem is that when I hit the flash firmware button, the dos box that comes up says ERROR: cannot open the com port, it may be in use by another application. I tried switching it to a different com port but no success. Can anybody give me some suggestions on what the issued might be?
Thanks
Re: Storm 32 board on a gimbal help
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 10:17 pm
by rsbkh
So it turns out the chip on my FTDI board was bricked by the latest Windows drivers. So I reprogrammed the eeprom with the proper VID and then downloaded some older drivers. Then I installed the serial converter driver, unplugged it, plugged it back in and it came up under the com port. I installed the com port driver and then it worked. Wow! What a pain! All that just so I could update the firmware on the gimbal and be able to calibrate it.