The following section describes how to establish a USB connection for use with the EV3 MonoBrick firmware. The MonoBrick firmware supports the RNDIS protocol which means that EV3 will act as a virtual Ethernet device. All you have to do is to install a RNDIS driver and connect the EV3 to the PC/Mac. The IP address of the EV3 is :
10.0.1.1
In the following installing the RNDIS on the different operating systems are described.
Installing the RNDIS driver on Windows
To install the RNDIS driver on a Windows machine please follow these steps
- Insert the EV3 via USB into your PC
- Update the driver
- Start/Reboot the EV3
- Confirm that the device is installed
Updating the driver is shown on the images below. Once the driver has been installed you should be able to ping 10.0.1.1 and get a reply.
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- Open the device manager
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- Seach for driver update
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- Device is installed
Installing the RNDIS driver on Mac OS
To install the RNDIS driver on a Mac please follow these steps
- Download and install RNDIS driver from this site
- Insert the EV3 via USB into your PC
- Start/Reboot the EV3
- Confirm that the device is installed
Install the driver is shown on the images below. Once the driver has been installed you should be able to ping 10.0.1.1 and get a reply.
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- Download RNDIS driver
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- Network settings
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- Ping 10.0.1.1
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