#169

Got my DIY shield board today,but can’t get ahold of a 3b+ but have a 3b att home, could it work for testing purposes?

#170

Yeah, works fine :slight_smile: I’m using one for testing at the moment.
They’re pretty much equivalent from a functionality perspective, networking setup is technically different but should work for both of them (apart from the built-in Wi-Fi not working on either of them at the moment of course)

[edit] The CPU/SoC on the Raspberry Pi 3B is the same one as one the CM3 that’s used in norns, so it’s pretty much as close as can be :slight_smile:

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#171

Thanks for the quick replay, at work, can’t wait to get home and start soldering!

#172

is anyone else having trouble waking up the system after putting it to “sleep”? I keep having to do a hard reset and didn’t know if this is going to cause issues down the road.

#173

i don’t think the shield has a power switch ?

hopefully the power cycle doesn’t cause issues. is it encouraged to use sleep as opposed to unplugging while a script is running ? i’m guessing yes

#174

I’ll need to confirm on my shield (as compared to Fates), but SLEEP is really doing sudo shutdown now and is turning off the pi. The display may still show “sleep” on screen because the pi has power (and the red led on the pi will be on as well) - but the device is powered off. Thus you need to remove and reattach power to restart.

I don’t believe the “hold button to wake from sleep” (got norns hardware) works on RasPi norns

#175

This is correct. The power-on behavior of monome norns requires specific power management hardware not compatible with shields.

Using Norns shield you have to hard powercycle the pi to turn it on, as with other pi applications. sleep is indeed strongly recommended to safely shutdown the systen

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#176

As long as you shutdown using “sleep” in the menu or using something like shutdown over SSH/serial it’s all fine. That gives the system the option to properly shutdown, unmount the disks, etc.

Since a Raspberry Pi doesn’t properly turn off you’ll need to pull the power/plug to get it to fully turn off and connect it to power again when you want to start it (which will happen immediately since there’s no power button).

What do you mean with hard reset? There’s no reset button on a Raspberry Pi.

#177

It’s alive, easier to assemble than the vellmann kits I made when i was a kid! Didn’t even get the supercollider fail at first boot, but maybe that’s not a thing anymore?

#178

Hard reset as in pull the power plug and plug it back in.

Good to know. Shutting down properly was my main concern.

Thanks!

#180

ICYMI:

!

new image on this page -> https://monome.org/docs/norns/help/#manual-update

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#181

Finished my build, running new image :slightly_smiling_face:
Huge thanks to all involved

IMG_20200102_202830
IMG_20200102_2028304000×2250 4.67 MB

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#182

Hello everybody! Anyone has a clue about a place in Europe where to retrieve the components altogether? I found everything on Mouser except for the display: was able to find it on Luna-Displays from Germany, but the shipping cost raises up quite a bit. If nothing comes up I’ll go for it, but I’d like to hear if there’s an alternative I don’t know about :slight_smile:

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#183

Anyone out there have a micrometer that could give me the height of the display above the shield PCB with the standard headers from the BOM? in mm?

I used a different header/pin combo and I’m curious if they’re the same or not.

#184

Twenty characters of 8mm.

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#185

Where are you based?
Digikey have them in stock and I am just missing the screen.
I can get two from digikey and we can share costs.
I am in France so if you are as well this will be much easier.

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#186

I’m in northern Italy.

If I understand correctly, the display is still a missing piece, right? My issue is trying to avoid an extra shipment exclusively for it.

I’d love to share costs but am actually looking for a reseller where I’d be able to buy all the components (screen included). On the other hand we could talk about splitting the display shipping costs in half, but I think that it wouldn’t change that much since we’d still need to mail the components over from France to Italy (or vice-versa) and face the relative fee which I guess it’s gonna be around 15€ at least…

I’m open to discuss this if anything comes up: feel free to send me a pm :slight_smile:

#188

I picked up the same keyboard for Orca :slight_smile: good call!

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#190

Hello everyone,
To not pay shipping costs, I have just bought two screens (in yellow) from digikey.
Of course I only need one, so if there is anyone in France interested, please PM me.
The cost will be what I have paid plus shipping (€3 France to france) plus any import duty I am going to pay (probably nothing).

#191

how does this connect to norns, via wifi?