Fates - a DIY norns DAC board for Raspberry Pi

[frankchannel]

I haven’t kept up with recent changes, so this could be outdated – but, this is what I did:

In the files:

/home/we/fates/overlays/fates1.7-buttons-encoders-overlay.dts

and

/home/we/fates/overlays/fates1.7-buttons-4encoders-overlay.dts

I changed all instances of:

rotary-encoder,half-period;

to:

rotary-encoder,full-period;

Then recompile the overlays:

sudo dtc -W no-unit_address_vs_reg -@ -I dts -O dtb -o /boot/overlays/fates-buttons-encoders.dtbo /home/we/fates/overlays/fates1.7-buttons-encoders-overlay.dts

sudo dtc -W no-unit_address_vs_reg -@ -I dts -O dtb -o /boot/overlays/fates-buttons-4encoders.dtbo /home/we/fates/overlays/fates1.7-buttons-4encoders-overlay.dts

And reboot. This change makes encoders with detents much more useable.

[autodafe]

After F*ing up my Fates by blindly go to the “update” screen, I redownloaded the image and then applied the update manually (SFTP + SSH) and everything worked!
Thanks for the update!

[JaggedNZ]

Best triple check the soldering on your display header and Raspberry pi header, look carefully for dry joints and bridges.

Some of the audio jacks and headphone jacks look like they might be dry and could use a tad more solder, but hard to tell for sure in your photo.
Post photos of your soldering if you want pointers. Taking a photo in good lighting and zooming in is a reasonable substitution for an inspection microscope.

[pampl22]

[okyeron]

This opposite side of the board here would be more helpful

Also a view of the 2x20 pi header from the top would help

Also also - which pi? Did the screen display ok before the system update problem? Make sure hdmi cable is unplugged when trying to troubleshoot the oled display.

[okyeron]

updated disk images:

For Raspberry Pi 3b+ (200218 norns 2.2.9) img file (2.2GB)

For Raspberry Pi 4b (200218 norns 2.2.9) img file (2.2GB)

[pampl22]

Manage to get it working now, been using the wrong disk images all the time and the screen is also a bit loose. Thank you for the help .

[Frederickk]

What’s the difference between these images and the ones posted on 18 Feb? Would SYSTEM > UPDATE deliver the same result?

[JaggedNZ]

They should be the same if you have been following the updates. These images have the new fates safe update process so they will be easier for new users and anyone who needs to reflash their SD cards

[okyeron]

Prior to the 200218 update SYSTEM > UPDATE would brick your Fates. The 200218 update fixes that problem. After you update to 200218 future updates should work via SYSTEM > UPDATE

The most recent disk images give you the same result as the manual update to 200218.

[pampl22]

I often can’t receive any audio from apps, it always took several reboot to get it working. It happened most of the time is this a normal issue?

[Duksos]

Hello
I just finished my build last night
It works but …
I can’t get the memory card to expand when I ssh to the pi
I am using a raspberry pi4

and this sd card
I tried reflashing still no success
Any help would be appreciated
Also…
Was I supposed to have the raspberry pi up and running with an os before I installed the fates /Norns disk image ?

[okyeron]

Are you on a Mac by any chance? If so you could try flashing with ApplePiBaker which has a setting to auto expand the image.

Could be there’s an issue with the disk image. I’ll check on that today

[okyeron]

Does not sound normal but you’ve not provided any info about what you’re doing.

Can you post as much detail as possible about what your doing? Specific scripts, steps to reproduce, how things are connected, etc.

Have you tried the troubleshooting tests here?

[swhic]

A few things: I can’t make a Sandisk 64gb to work either. Also when on battery (Anker) apps that require heavy use of Grid like cheat codes or takt get glitchy. Tried also with offworld no luck.

[Duksos]

Apple pi baker was the winner winner chicken dinner for me
81:50 Hrs wow😎 !!!
of available recording
I’m going to get lost with all that space
Thanks as always

[swhic]

Did u fat32 the card before pibaker?

[Duksos]

I did not do that
I did have to select these options tho

[pampl22]

For some reason the system was unable to boot, it was working fine last night. I tried both the latest and an earlier image. I am using a PI 3+, however it was able to run norns when flesh a 4b image but it has no display on the oled.

[noiserock]

might be a disk image issue. did some tests now and I cannot expand filesystem/change localization settings.

Error in raspi-config(generic):
There was an error running option I2 Change Timezone
There was an error running option A1 Expand Filesystem

pi3B+ btw.