#1083

Hi Dan! Awesome, thank you so much for clarifying that for me :sparkles:

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#1085

I’m in the process of assembling a DIY Norns Shield; I found a second-hand RasPi 3b which is tested and working (for at least mouse input and HDMI output) with the Raspian install that came with it, and I just received a case in the post from @okyeron (thanks!). All I’m now waiting for is the assembled Shield itself, which is apparently en route from the person who assembled it for me in Germany as I’m still not confident in my soldering skills to embark on building one myself.

In advance of the Shield’s arrival, I’ve downloaded the norns200106-shield.img image from here and tried booting the Pi to see if it’ll work on the board, with no result beyond the 4:3 ratio multicolour Pi screen appearing on the HDMI output into a monitor. Should the Pi boot without the Shield present, or is it essential for the whole thing to boot?

The 8GB micro SD card I wrote norns200106-shield.img onto is showing 4 partitions: 4.2 MB free space ; 45 MB FAT boot partition ; 3.9 GB rootfs Partition 2 and then free space of 4.2 GB - does that seem right or is the 4.2 MB of free space likely to be interfering with the boot process?

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

#1086

You won’t see anything on the HDMI output, all visuals will be sent to the built-in screen.

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#1087

Thanks for this - I did wonder if this might be the case. In which case I await the arrival of the completed Norns Shield even more eagerly.

EDIT: I connected up the RasPi and booted from the Norns Shield image, and was then able to ssh into the configuration screen, so it seems to be working so far. So double thanks for the pointer.

#1088

This might not be the best place to post this, but it does seem relevant to my diy shield.

If i power up norns without my 16n connected and then plug in once powered up, all is well.

If i power up with my 16n connected, fader 6 does not work. I feel like I have read something similar somewhere on lines but can’t find it.

Any ideas?

#1089

Hi all,
maybe that’s a stupid question (sorry if it is) but is this DIY project compatible with patches for the original Mononome Norns?

Thank you for your help
bye

#1090

Once it is built and flashed it is pretty much functionally equivalent software wise.

#1091

Can anyone recommend a portable battery pack they’ve used that has worked well with the shield.

Getting one in a few days and would like to take it with me to go explore the great outdoors :chair::hole:

#1092

XTPower XT-20000QC3. Worth it!

A question to the norns specialists. I was able to write about 70% of my sample folders from mac to norns. But the last 30% wont be copied. Some read write error if i try to copy single wavs and just empty folders when copied as folder.

Not sure whats up there

Finder shows 26gb space left so it shouldnt be that fat32 error

Tried with zipping a folder. Getting read/write error. Its really funny, some of those folders i had up on my older norns image but had that problem aswell a few times. No pattern, some folders are written. Totaly not getting it

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#1093

Yes - The Norns shield and the full Norns hardware run the same software and scripts are compatible across the two.

#1094

No one with this issue and no idea? I am puzzled

#1095

What are you using to write the files? SFTP? SAMBA? Something else?

Have you checked for available file same on the device via SSH (rather than using Finder)

Random unfounded guess - SD card going bad?

#1096

Samba (finder), newish sandisk sd card, renamed folders ofc to try but did not work either.
The weird thing is it places the folders into norns but empty, i erase em, rename retry, same…
When i try to trick with zip or single wavs it gives a read/write error sth like the file cant be read/written. So it gives an error to the files itself instead the disk (norns) i know for a fact imhad those files on my previous norns image…

#1097

I think you can SFTP from the Finder (command-K then enter sftp://norns.local) if you wanted to try that to compare results.

#1098

i would try reformatting the SD card and/or using a different one.

#1099

Finally started building mine, hit the following gumption trap. Currently debating whether to just bodge it with tiny bits of wire

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#1100

What are we looking at exactly here?

#1101

The crystal I ordered, which I am fairly certain is the correct value/frequency otherwise, has the wrong sized footprint

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#1102

There is enough space on the board… I am thinking what you are thinking … tiny bits of wire ftw.

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#1103

Ordered the correct one but might actually try that while I’m waiting for it to arrive :smiley: