#1604

Mine are pretty wobbly, too. I’m not sure if it’s more down to the encoder shafts themselves, or the cheap Rogan clone knobs I bought.

A couple of my button caps are a bit squint, too. If it bother me too much I the future, I will disassemble the case and see if the buttons themselves aren’t sitting completely flat on the board.

#1605

Yeah, my upper left button cap is sitting pretty squint too. I tried reflowing the legs to make sure it was level to the board, but I might just try and file down slightly the left half of the button hole on the enclosure.

#1606

If you have it, something like Chip-Quik can be super useful for removing and installing new encoders/buttons. I had done some damage to my encoders recently on 2 FATES (rookie mistake with them) and replaced all the encoders in under an hour.

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#1607

@kasselvania, speed component replacement contests sound like an exciting form of competition!

But that’s a good idea. I have another mouser cart going for another project. I’m waiting to fill it up to be efficient with the shipping costs, but I may add a few extra encoders to reinstall some day.

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#1608

I already have some solid burns just from being careless. Let’s add speed in their and my wife will really start to rethink her approval of her husbands hobbies. Haha

#1609

Well, I sat on the components for for about 6 months before starting assembly (just like the 16n), but I finally finished my fates build. I ended up buying the yellow display to match my teletype, and it happened to go really well with the gold knobs I had laying around. I also opted for the countersunk screw but I didn’t have one long enough for the bottom left corner by the display. Soon though, I hope I will🤞. Now I’m tempted to get black faceplates so my modules match my fates and 16n.

I’m finding Norns is fun.

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#1610

Hi guys are there any fates cases available anywhere? @okyeron are you planning to get some more? :slight_smile: Thanks!

#1611

Nice case! Mary I ask where you got it from? I’m after one for my fates

#1612

With C-19 restrictions I cant access the maker space laser cutter I usually use so I’m kinda stuck.

Been meaning to check on pricing from a service to see if that’s viable. Will keep you posted

#1613

From Ponoko. I gave them the same case file from the github repo, but with the screen cutout removed.

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#1615

Just want to give a big shoutout to @okyeron for helping out and getting me up and going. Thanks for your time and help!

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#1616

@forrest, confirmed on mine with the same power supply. But I had to connect it to my router first and SSH to the pi. After I did that, I disconnected from my router and my WiFi worked as expected.

Not sure why though.

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#1617

Yeah - the pi4 image was working on my test “master” sd card/pi4.

Did you expand the filesystem on these? (or still trying to get connected to do that?)

I’ve got a fix that will help with hotspot. but… you’ll need to connect somehow first. Usually I use ethernet for the first connection or for setup.

If you have installed 200218 - go ahead and do the on-device update to 200328 and then do this quickfix for hotspot

FWIW - power supply should not be the problem here.

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#1618

Hi, yesterday evening I updated from 200218 to the latest version and Fates starts up but all apps stays open on “loading …”

I could start ORAC and play with it and access the dust folder to backup.

I had to reflash the sad card and and then I put the files back to its place from the backed up Dust folder.

Cheers

#1619

All 3 working great now, 3 tiny bridges! I desoldered the dacs and put them back with a lot of extra care/cleaning/flux. Updates all worked great.

One thing I noticed though, wifi doesn’t connect to the previous connection until I go open the wifi config, then it connects.

#1620

No idea what might be up there. You can use nmtui from the command line to try managing your networks and see if anything seems odd. Could also be a function of wifi signal strength (?)

#1621

is there a different download location for the disc image than on achive.org?
It sais 4-7 hours for 2gb data. I checked different files, it’s not my 100mbit connection that slows it down that much :frowning:

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#1622

Hmm, going the full route with installing raspbian and following the instructions seems to fail too.
After fates_install_pi4.sh on reboot nothing on the screen (Modprobe did work and showed the terminal!)
Redoing didn’t change that.
Continuing with /fates_networkmanager.sh freezes when installing a package. After that the Device is bricked.

Download image still takes forever. downloaded 640MB since I started it over an hour ago.

I am doing linux stuff for over 2 decades now, so I some kind of understood everything in the documentation and haven’t seen anything that looked wrong on the way (in what was shown on the screen doing all the package installing, fetching projects, compiling them etc.)

quite frustrating start in a new device :frowning:

Edit 30 Minutes later:

While I am retrying, I am collecting issues:

During the cd /home/we/fates/install/norns/scripts && ./fates_prepare_rpi4.sh part:

'/home/we/linux/drivers/staging/fbtft/flexfb.ko' -> '/lib/modules/4.19.97-v7l+/kernel/drivers/staging/fbtft/flexfb.ko'

rm: cannot remove '/home/we/.config': No such file or directory

Connection to 192.168.178.74 closed by remote host.

The documentation states, that it should ask to install the kernelmodule for the display. it didn’t. It directly rebooted. Maybe thats the issue with the bricked device. Networksettings changed during the last step, but display module not loaded. Trying to understand scripts now :frowning:

Edit after checking scripts: Nope, it just tries to remove a file that doesn’t exist and then reboots. Doesn’t seem to skip something here. going to the linux folder and doing a make menuconfig to check if the configuration is right, seems to be fine, as the ssd1322 is marked with an M

Edit: More updates:

Everything seems fine until: cd /home/we/fates/install/norns/scripts &&./fates_install_pi4.sh

There are some infos/warnings during the dpkg stuff, that might be irrelevant, but maybe not, so here they are:
/boot/overlays/fates-buttons-encoders.dtbo: Warning (avoid_unnecessary_addr_size): /fragment@6/overlay/keys: unnecessary #address-cells/#size-cells without “ranges” or child “reg” property
/boot/overlays/fates-buttons-4encoders.dtbo: Warning (avoid_unnecessary_addr_size): /fragment@8/overlay/keys: unnecessary #address-cells/#size-cells without “ranges” or child “reg” property

Package 'hostapd' is not installed, so not removed

Package 'exim4-daemon-custom' is not installed, so not removed
Note, selecting 'exim4-config' instead of 'exim4-config-2'
Package 'exim4-base' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'exim4-config' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'exim4-daemon-heavy' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'exim4-daemon-light' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'exim4-dev' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'exim4-doc-html' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'exim4-doc-info' is not installed, so not removed

dpkg-statoverride: warning: no override present

Than norms is cloned and build, everything seems fine.
Than it enters Supercollider and leaves it without errors.

I am not quite sure, whats done after that, but I get an error there:
‘configure’ finished successfully (2.581s)

Waf: Entering directory `/home/we/norns/build'

Waf: Leaving directory `/home/we/norns/build'

**source not found: 'src/SoftCutClient.cpp' in bld(lib=['jack', 'pthread', 'm', 'sndfile', 'atomic'], use=['ALSA', 'LIBLO', 'BOOST'], target='crone', idx=1, posted=True, tg_idx_count=5, meths=['process_rule', 'process_source', 'apply_link', 'create_task_macapp', 'create_task_macplist', 'install_boost', 'process_use', 'propagate_uselib_vars', 'apply_incpaths', 'set_full_paths_hpux', 'set_macosx_deployment_target'], includes=['src', './'], cxxflags=['-std=c++14', '-O2', '-Wall'], source=['src/main.cpp', 'src/BufDiskWorker.cpp', 'src/Commands.cpp', 'src/MixerClient.cpp', 'src/OscInterface.cpp', 'src/SoftCutClient.cpp', 'src/Taper.cpp', 'src/Window.cpp', 'src/softcut/FadeCurves.cpp', 'src/softcut/SoftCutHead.cpp', 'src/softcut/SoftCutVoice.cpp', 'src/softcut/SubHead.cpp', 'src/softcut/Svf.cpp', 'src/softcut/TestBuffers.cpp'], path=/home/we/norns/crone, _name='crone', typ='program', features=['c', 'cxx', 'cxxprogram', 'cxx', 'cxxprogram']) in /home/we/norns/crone**

after that, something is cloned, some WAV Files are copied and maiden is cloned. This seems to work also.
After that the device reboots. In the documentation it states, that there should be something on the display (Sparkles).
It isn’t! So something must be wrong here. I will stop here, because with the next step, my device was bricked, after I had nothing on the screen the step before.

Anyone can help? Would like to use the device I waited for so long :frowning:

#1623

Sorry about the trouble. If someone has another suggestion for hosting the disk image please let me know.

I’ll need to read thru your report in more detail when I’m at my computer.

But… I’ve not run a full install from scratch in quite awhile so there may be some kruft in the install doc. I’ll look and see

Will DM to followup

#1624

I found that if you use the torrent option from the archive entry page, and use a torrent client, its much much faster (as I guess archive.com has a few seedboxes themselves?).

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