Electronics arrived

We had a postal strike here in Finland so not much happened for a while. But today I got some packages! My Arduino Mega clone, RAMPS and bunch of other stuff arrived.

I have an original Arduino UNO so the Arduino IDE was already familiar to me. I'll leave installation of the electronics for the weekend but I wanted to test the Mega board first. But it did not work straight away with OS X 10.9. The simple LED blinking code refused to upload to the board. The error was following:

avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "COM1": No such file or directory ioctl("TIOCMGET"): Inappropriate ioctl for device

So after a couple searches I learnt I should install a new USB driver. The instructions and driver can be found here: http://kiguino.moos.io/2014/12/31/how-to-use-arduino-nano-mini-pro-with-CH340G-on-mac-osx-yosemite.html

After running the installer and reboot the Arduino IDE was able to upload the code and LED blinker works fine now.