#288

Is anyone planning on making a 512 or a 1024 or a 2048? Big grids are pretty lol!

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#289

Twenty characters of YIKES

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#290

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**UPDATE 200218 successful **

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#291

Anyone have suggestions or preferences for a “default” or “standard” i2c address arrangement for the 16x8 grid layout? (8x4 neotrellis boards)

Gonna maybe make some build pix and a firmware for Feather M4

#292

I just left one default and then +1 for each board after that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, i.e.

    {Adafruit_NeoTrellis(0x2e), Adafruit_NeoTrellis(0x2f), Adafruit_NeoTrellis(0x30), Adafruit_NeoTrellis(0x31)}, // top row
    {Adafruit_NeoTrellis(0x32), Adafruit_NeoTrellis(0x33), Adafruit_NeoTrellis(0x34), Adafruit_NeoTrellis(0x35)}  // bottom row

EDIT: The above is how it looks after assembly, looking down at the top side.

#293

My OLED fiiiiiiinally arrived, so I have my DIY Norns up and running now. Yay.

I’m now trying to get my DIY Norns to recognise my NeoTrellis Grid. Any tips anyone?

@okyeron - I tried using your diy_device_fix.sh but I’m clearly doing it wrong. Here’s what I did:

  1. ssh into Norns
  2. cd to /home/we
  3. git clone fates repository
  4. cd to /home/we/fates/install/norns/scripts and run your diy fix script with sudo.

All went well except at the execution of the last line - source not found: 'src/SoftCutClient.cpp' and various related errors.

DIY: norns shield
#294

Maybe best to throw this over to the neotrellis thread, but…

You may need to re-pull the norns repo with new dependencies which I think is
git submodule update --recursive (in the norns directory)

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#295

Brilliant thanks. I’ll try it in the morning.

#296

There was a problem with file paths. The norns directory structure looks like it has changed in relation to crone and softcut. SoftCutClient.cpp is now SoftcutClient.cpp and the softcut src files have been moved.

I updated the crone_sources in the new crones wscript (upated by the fates diy fix file) to match the paths in the original wscript.
After that, ./waf configure still works fine. When I then run ./waf I now get the following output:

Waf: Entering directory `/home/we/norns/build'
[29/54] Compiling maiden-repl/src/page.c
[30/54] Compiling maiden-repl/src/ui.c
[31/54] Compiling maiden-repl/src/pages.c
[33/54] Compiling maiden-repl/src/main.c
In file included from ../maiden-repl/src/pages.c:1:0:
../maiden-repl/src/page.h:7:21: fatal error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
 #include <ncurses.h>
                     ^
compilation terminated.

../maiden-repl/src/ui.c:9:19: fatal error: panel.h: No such file or directory
 #include <panel.h>
                   ^
compilation terminated.

../maiden-repl/src/page.c:2:21: fatal error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
 #include <ncurses.h>
                     ^
compilation terminated.

Waf: Leaving directory `/home/we/norns/build'
Build failed
 -> task in 'maiden-repl' failed with exit status 1 (run with -v to display more information)
 -> task in 'maiden-repl' failed with exit status 1 (run with -v to display more information)
 -> task in 'maiden-repl' failed with exit status 1 (run with -v to display more information)

I get the same error when running ./waf with the default crones wscript in place.

Is this a new thing, DIY Norns connecting to Neotrellis? From my searches most people seem to have been connecting Fates to Neotrellis. Should be the same in theory I guess.

UPDATE

Oh. The grid is detected now, in spite of the errors.

Good news. And I have input from the grid working too.

Looks like I knew exactly what I was doing all along :slight_smile:

@okyeron Thanks for the script to sort this out.

For others setting this up - what I did to get this working on a DIY Norns (some linux command line knowledge presumed):

  1. ssh into Norns
  2. cd /home/we
  3. git clone https://github.com/okyeron/fates.git
  4. backup norns/crone wscript file:
    sudo cp /home/we/norns/crone/wscript /home/we/norns/crone/wscript.bak
  5. Overwrite original with @okyeron’s:
    sudo cp -f /home/we/fates/install/norns/files/crone/wscript /home/we/norns/crone/wscript
  6. Edit the wscript in home/we/norns/crone to have the same crone_sources as in wscript.bak. You also need to update the includes array to include the new location of softcut code, as in wscript.bak:
                 includes=[
                     'src',
                     './',
                     'softcut/softcut-lib/include'
                 ],
  1. sudo cp -f /home/we/fates/install/norns/files/device/device_monitor.c /home/we/norns/matron/src/device/device_monitor.c
  2. cd /home/we/norns
  3. ./waf configure
  4. ./waf
    (I get compilation errors at this stage. See above.)
  5. sleep, reboot
  6. Configure devices in System menu

That worked for me… Perhaps @okyeron could shed light on the process.

#297

Ayeeeeeeeee… :exploding_head: you shouldn’t need to do all that stuff.

Lemme check on my shield. Will try to report back later today

#298

OK, I remembered the steps that were missing - a couple of new packages were added, but are not in the shield kernel yet (these are already installed on fates):

If you’re on norns shield with 200218 do the following (if you’re on another version, update first).

NOTE - Be aware this is a hack/workaround and is not officially supported.
Proceed at your own risk

cd ~/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/okyeron/fates/master/install/norns/files/device/device_monitor.c
cd ~/norns
git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive
sudo cp -f /home/we/device_monitor.c /home/we/norns/matron/src/device/device_monitor.c
rm /home/we/device_monitor.c
./waf clean
./waf configure --enable-ableton-link
./waf build
sudo reboot

The missing packages will get fixed in the next release I believe. You’ll also need to re-run this after norns updates.

@Lemmy I’d suggest deleting ~/version.txt then go back and run the last update and do the above steps.

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Trellis M4 open source grid controller
#299

OK, will do. Did you look at the fates crone wscript compared with the most recent norns one? The paths to the source files in norns/crone seem to have been changed. That is effectively the main thing I did in the post above - I just ran your diy fix script line by line, but included the changes to norns/crone/wscript.

#300

Looks like all of this is partly due to softcut being moved

#301

Yep. Case was also changed in SoftcutClient.cpp and associated header file. Softcut instead of SoftCut.

#302

Compilation was successful after following the recommended steps.

#303

Nope. To clarify - You should not need to change wscript at all.

Just tested on my shield and my instructions above work just fine.

FWIW - I believe your build errors above were due to the missing ncurses package and the missing submodules

#304

OK great, that makes things simpler.

#305

Hello
I’m contemplating this build
Is it easy to get up and running ?

#306

This guy is asking the real questions. I’ve been monitoring this neotrellis build and the fates build religiously, and I’m curious about the difficulty of these projects. I’m a graphic designer with little soldering experience and no coding experience. So, I’m waiting for other builders to work out the kinks.

Maybe someone can put a walk-through together. I’d love to work together and design some easy to follow instructions.

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#307

It really depends on your experience. It’s very straightforward to get a single 4x4 grid up and running and responding to user input, and that will give you the momentum to see it through to the end I think. Perhaps the trickiest part, if you haven’t done much soldering, is joining the neotrellis panels together. In terms of coding you might have to change a few numbers in a script to match the jumpers on your trellis grids, but it’s no big deal and nothing someone here can’t talk you through.
Enclosures are as simple or as complicated as you want to make them. I wouldn’t worry about the enclosure too much up front, just get the grid working first and you’ll be off and running.

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