Connection Issues with XRP Code Editor

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Hello!

We purchased a few kits last year for use with our college classroom. They worked great last semester! During class today, a student ran some code and the robot suddenly stopped working. I’ve tried a few methods posted on this forum (including the universal flash nuke here), and nothing seems to fix it completely. There are no bent pins and the two red lights turn on (it’s a Beta version). The computer (mac) recognizes the external drive, but the XRP Code editor does not connect via USB or bluetooth. Occasionally we can see the robot when trying to connect via bluetooth, but the CodeEditor can’t connect. Here’s a picture of what we’re seeing. Any suggestions? Thank you!

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When micropython is running you shouldn’t see the drive. If the drive is showing it is because there is no microcode loaded. Like after a nuke or the bootsel button is being pressed as the XRP is booting up. After a nuke you need to load the correct micropython uf2 file by copying it to the drive.
https://micropython.org/download/SPARKFUN_XRP_CONTROLLER_BETA/

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That’s good to know! We did follow the instructions and loaded the latest micropython uf2 to the drive after using the nuke option. You are correct, we couldn’t see the drive once we did that, but we also still couldn’t connect via the code editor.