#1917

Thanks, and no worries - you’ve done amazing with with Fates. The 100n hack worked on my encoders :v:

#1918

Hi everyone
Has it ever happened to someone that the Fates remains on this screen when turned on and that you have to turn it off to start it up?

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in my case, having installed sidekick, it was enough to keep the three softkeys pressed simultaneously. but I would like to understand if this can happen at times.

Thanks

#1919

The only think I can think of is that the systemd units failed to startup for some reason.

you’d probably need to do some system log checking when it happens to see what might not be running.

systemctl status would be one way to check.

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#1920

Just wanted to thank @okyeron again for this wonderful project, and helping so much with everything.

And I also wanted to share pictures of my two fates (one is still in the cardboard prototype box haha):

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15304×3536 6.3 MB
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44945×3297 4.7 MB
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35283×3522 6.68 MB
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56000×4000 6.73 MB

One is 1/8" walnut, the other is a USPS medium flat rate box. Knobs are some cheap ones I found on Amazon.
I used @okyeron’s drawings from the acrylic case design as a base.

I’m using the raspberry pi 4 4gb, with cheap heatsinks and no vents on the case. It runs a little bit warm, but I think it’s acceptable. Highest I’ve seen it is 67°C (what it reads on the norns software).

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#1921

Had some time to solder on some 15nF caps on my encoders as well. Now they are all smooth as butter. Essential hack!

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#1922

Thank a lot for the image! Very helpful for someone clueless like me.

Can I use these?

I think I will also have to do something about my jumping encoders…

#1923

Should be ok!(somebody correct me if I’m wrong). And happy to help! No need to solder in parallel direction like I did, did it mainly to conserve space(and to simplify soldering).

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#1924

Nice! Thanks for the suggestion, no more dancing for my encoders :wink:

#1925

Wow, I would buy this case if you’ll release a batch someday!

#1926

i just got a fates coming from organelle —- curious as to if the video outputs on the pi 4 am be utilized

#1927

@TheTechnobear got any info?

#1928

how’s your linux kung-fu?

You’ll need to manually install a bunch of Python stuff (as outlined on the patchstorage page).

Then you need to deal with the pi4 dynamically allocating the video framebuffers - once you plug in an HDMI screen, I believe that one becomes fb0 and will get the Fates display output. So you would need to make a few adjustments to have the on-device OLED on fb1. Pi3b+ would actually be easier as the HDMI is always on fb0 and Fates is set to use fb1

Does not look easy or straightforward off the top of my head.

#1929

@dan_derks Is this related to the init errors ppl are having trying to run cheat_code_2 beta? If so I’m having the same error even though controlspec.lua is latest, not sure how to fix this!

#1930

I’ll dm you a possible fix

#1931

ok thanks for this info. my linux skills are pretty decent, but my fates is a pi4. i am not super concerned about it.

#1932

I’m gonna buy an sd card for my fates. Any size recommended?

#1933

32GB seems to have a good $/GB ratio

If you’re gonna load up heavy on samples, maybe 64GB?

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#1934

Thank you!!!
Going with the 64

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#1935

I got the fix to work a while ago with changing one of the config files. Just curious, is that swap over to the new file tree going to be implemented down the line?

#1936

There was a change in the norns repo branch naming that was missed and I’ve corrected that now in the Fates fork. So a git pull on the main branch and re-compile will get everything up to date.

This will get integrated into the next update whenever a new norns update release happens. I suppose I could do it earlier, but its been good to keep the releases synced with the regular norns releases for feature parity.

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