Haha, it's not daft, I did do that step! Fortunately I found a longer (more conveniently sized) cable. :)Quote
AndyCart
My understanding is that you can connect to your Arduino from the Arduino IDE using a particular baud rate and COM port and you can successfully upload the firmware? If this is the case then you HAVE to use the same COM port and baud rate for everything else. Have you tried a different USB lead. I know it sounds daft but some work and some don't!
But yeah, I found that the upload of firmware wasn't actually too fussed about which COM port and baud rate. Maybe some smarts in Win 8.1 or something? Who knows. I'm just happy that I'm pressing [ENTER] and something is happening now mechanically... even if it's failing haha.