Windows 10 and Fireduino

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You have to disable driver signing in windows 8 and windows 10 - install the the windows 8 drivers that are provided.  Google how to disable the driver signing, there are lots of websites that tell how to do it.  - I had to do the "push hold reset" "push hold upgrade" "release reset" then "release upgrade" to get Windows to install the drivers, then I had to do it again, adding one more "reset push" to get the serial drivers to install. The serial port drivers took a little while for me. You also have to run the Arduino IDE as "administrator".

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hold reset, push and hold upgrade, release reset, release upgrade, wait a few seconds, push reset again.  After a few more seconds windows should start to install the serial driver (mine just installed generic drivers which did work).  Every now and then I have to do the reset/upgrade button thing to get both my Windows machine, and my Linux machine to see the serial port - not sure why.  On both Windows and Linux the IDE needs to be ran as administrator.