Fates - a DIY norns DAC board for Raspberry Pi

[Dogma]

I would but that was all it said

[zebra]

1. open maiden

2. go to SC tab and enter ;restart (do not forget the semicolon)

3. copy entire output
   
   

“library not compiled successfully” is the error message when sclang tries to evaluate something but there is an error in the classes.

it is verylikely there is a duplicate engine, but this could also mean a missing file from someone’s project or many ther things. so we need to see the full error message from sclang’s class compilation step, which is shown immediately after ;restart. (but will probably not be shown on initial connection of maiden, since sclang’s startup process has already ended in failure.)

[Dogma]

I was just sending a screen shot

[zebra]

you are missing the intiial semicolon in ;restart.

therefore maiden is not recognizing the command and is passing the string “restart” as code input to sclang, which is in a failure state.

[Dogma]

and thats much “better”
compiling class library…
Found 716 primitives.
Compiling directory ‘/usr/share/SuperCollider/SCClassLibrary’
Compiling directory ‘/usr/share/SuperCollider/Extensions’
Compiling directory ‘/home/we/.local/share/SuperCollider/Extensions’
Compiling directory ‘/home/we/norns/sc/core’
Compiling directory ‘/home/we/norns/sc/engines’
Compiling directory ‘/home/we/norns/sc/ugens’
Compiling directory ‘/home/we/dust’
Open ended comment started on line 142 of file ‘/home/we/dust/code/lissadron/lib/Engine_Lissadron.sc’
ERROR: Variable ‘root’ not defined.
in file ‘/home/we/dust/code/grd/engine_grd.sc’
line 11 char 12:
root = 50;

	group  = ParGroup.tail(context.xg);

---

ERROR: Variable ‘root’ not defined.
in file ‘/home/we/dust/code/grd/engine_grd.sc’
line 42 char 18:
([0,12,24]+root).do { |base,i|

			key = d2k.((m[i*8+1]*8).asInt, mode);

---

ERROR: Variable ‘root’ not defined.
in file ‘/home/we/dust/code/grd/engine_grd.sc’
line 59 char 3:
});

}

---

[zebra]

take it up with the author of grd. other user reports same error:

Grd

Installed grd (from within maiden) on my second factory norns and am getting the following error after restarting sc and maiden on that device. Tried re-installing and same issue. Not sure how to proceed, it’s functioning fine on the other norns device: ERROR: Variable ‘root’ not defined. in file ‘/home/we/dust/code/grd/engine_grd.sc’ line 11 char 12: root = 50; group = ParGroup.tail(context.xg); ERROR: Variable ‘root’ not defined. in file ‘/home/we/dust/code/grd/engine_grd.sc’ line …

in the meantime, try uninstalling that script to continue using norns.

[desolationjones]

My Fates has been shelved for months, and now upon booting it the screen won’t come on at all. I never had this problem before. There are no evident hardware issues. I have to suspect a dead pi or dead screen but I’m curious if others have seen this issue.

I think the last app I had open was Cheat Codes but I see nothing on my Grid. The red and green lights are on the pi.

Edit: it was a bad SD card

[okyeron]

@desolationjones

The red and green lights are on the pi.

If both are on, then that’s some kinda problem with the pi or sd card

Green should flash during SD card activity or in a pattern to indicate a boot problem.

Note: A faintly glowing steady green LED means no boot code has ever been executed,

make sure the sd card is properly seated?

[Dogma]

Just to confirm this appears to have completely fixed the issue, thank you very much

[TheeDatabomb]

I got the dreaded SuperCollider Fail on boot up of Norns. Not sure what happened. Now nothing will boot in Norns. Orac and Organelle work just fine. I’m backing up the Fates Dust folder now.

[coreyr]

I, like 2 others above, had to delete GRD as it was throwing the SC fail for me too after updating apps tonight. If you have GRD installed, you may want to delete it for now. After I removed it, all was well again.

[zebra]

follow the steps shown above if you want help diagnosing, it is usually simple

[TheeDatabomb]

here’s what I got.

BATTERY: FAIL.
ERROR (i2c/hp) failed to write
*** WARNING *** The program ‘matron’ uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
*** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
*** WARNING *** For more information see http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/avahi-compat.html
OSC rx port: 8888
OSC crone port: 9999
OSC ext port: 57120
starting lua vm
running lua config file: dofile(’/home/we/norns/lua/core/config.lua’)
MATRON
norns version: 0.0.0
git hash: d4a8b66f
running startup
start_audio():

script clear

ERROR (i2c/hp) failed to write
norns.startup_status.timeout

SCRIPT ERROR: SUPERCOLLIDER FAIL

[TheeDatabomb]

Deleted GRD and that didn’t solve the problem.

[zebra]

Follow all the steps: select SC tab before ;restart

[yota]

my mistake. i uploaded a fix. sorry!

[desolationjones]

It was a bad SD card! Couldn’t even successfully re-flash it. How strange.

[TheeDatabomb]

Thanks again fam! It’s working again after I did the ;restart. So glad I don’t have to reinstall everything and reload all my samples!

[jedgar]

I lasered a new case for my Fates using LED diffusion acrylic – my 3D printed PLA case warped from Pi4 heat so it was time for a change. Now waiting on four matching encoder knobs from Modular Addict.

[alley_cam]

Love that acrylic color! Where did you get that lasered?