Electronic – arduino – Can Original Arduino Mega 2560 Work with Google ADK

You definitely do not just have a 6V battery and 6 LEDs in series. Regardless of bad design or not, this just wouldn't work. Eash LED would only get 1V, which is well less than the 3V or so most white LEDs need to operate at reasonable brightness.

So let's forget how you think the board is wired and treat it like a black box. You say it seems to work correctly when the two wires coming off the board are connected to 6V. It would be good if you had actual specs on that or explained where you got this from, but for now let's assume this is the correct way to power the board.

In that case, what you are really asking is how to switch 6V with a microcontroller. Part of the answer will depend on how much current. Are these little 20 mA LEDs or high powered lighting LEDs? Either way, a low side N channel FET switch is probably the easiest way to interface this with a microcontroller output, but the choice of FET depends on the current. For example, I like the IRLML2502 since it can be directly driven from a logic output and has decent current capability and low Rdson for such a small part. It can handle over 3A at 70C ambient temperature. If your board draws 3A or less when 6V is applied to it, then that's all you need. If more, then you'll have to carefully chose a different FET and perhaps different drive method than simply connnecting the microcontroller output to the gate.

Even if the original USB-serial is bad (and can't simply be reflashed), if the main processor seems good you may have the option of communicating with it using an outboard USB-serial converter or level shifter (if you can still find a real serial port). For a plain arduino it would be barely worth it, for a mega with its substantially higher price it could well be worth the trouble.