Installing CH340 driver for Cosmic Watch Muon Detector v2
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Right — this is the bit that trips most people up, but it’s straightforward. CH340 is not a “USB drive”. It’s the USB-to-serial chip driver your Arduino Nano clone uses…
Jotham Gates’ firmware (file called MuonDetector.ino) for CosmicWatch v2 muon detectors from https://jgohyeah.github.io/electronics/2019/08/12/cosmic-watch-muon.html – allows both screen to display data and data to be saved to SD card when in use
# NonOfficial-StuffForCosmicWatchMuonDetectors Extra code and stuff I (Jotham Gates) have made/adapted for Spencer Axiani’s Cosmic Watch Desktop Muon Detector V2 The official website can be found at (http://www.cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu/) The official…
SD Card format required by Arduino Nano
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