#2018

solder joints seem to be alright.

#2019

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t believe what you’ve described to be common. Usually problems like that are due to poor soldering. “Reflow everything” is my mantra in situations like this.

You’ve not really provided enough information for armchair debugging. Pictures of your board and/or case (if you’ve done something custom) would go a long way to help.

#2020

short question, which could answer my question -> are the R14 and R15 in the right position? I got then horizontal positioned, due to the solder mask lines …

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edit: Ok i checked the build pics and they have to be horizontal

@okyeron I know sry, my first intention was to sort out the possibility of a common fail, because someone told me that there could be problems with the length of the GPIO headers. But im on tour right know, so I will add some pictures soon.

#2021

Nope. They go the other way

Since those are i2c pullups, the resistors like in your pic would keep the DAC from functioning properly.

#2022

Plugged in my Fates last night to a battery pack I usually use with one of the 2 usb-c cables I usually use and…smoke. The component near C7 (but not C7) was glowing. I found another cable and battery pack and fired it back up after removing the case and making sure there wasn’t anything shorting the board, and it booted fine, but I get no input or output from the audio ports.

Anyone know if the whole board is fried or how to check and see if it’s salvageable?

#2023

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Was this the component glowing / smoking?

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#2024

Yeah that’s the 3.3v voltage regulator for the DAC. DAC won’t work without it.

Why it would blow up tho… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
(Flex of the usb jack causing a short?)

Likely just need to replace that and maybe the adjacent caps.

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#2025

Yes, it was this piece exactly. And I am also concerned that it went crazy out of nowhere.

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#2026

Not sure where to ask this but I’m on a fates so I guess this is the place.
I’m just really getting into norns and I wanted to back up some the recordings I’ve made, which has been quite a bit of late, I just deleted the file in maiden - I accidentally deleted all my recordings by trying to delete that file so I have a few questions I’m really hoping someone may be able to help with

I’m aussuming I can’t get my music back so now when I go into tape I have
Beets
Common
Reels
Takt

So are we using maiden for audio transfer now or still cyberduck method?
How best to back up tapes ( I guess I should call em files, damn op1 speak)

Thank you :blush:

#2027

You should be able to connect to smb://norns/dust/ from a file manager to connect to your Fates over wifi (I say smb here as my experience is on Linux only - I have no idea what you would use for a Mac, for example) and be able to back up from there.

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#2028

I’d love to see a picture of your board around the USB jack. DM me when you have a chance? I think I’ve only had 3-4 reported cases of the vreg failing or something. Still not very clear on why that would happen.

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#2029

Have you tried to boot up fates and ssh into the machine? You might not have deleted your recordings but just a file that knows where they are. I’d suggest ssh’ing into your fates and checking your dust directory to see if the audio files are still there. Then you could use sftp to get them onto a different machine and back them up. I’m a windows user primarily and WinSCP for this sort of thing.

If you’ve got Ethernet at your disposal that might be a good idea so you’re not depending on WiFi, just to be safe.

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#2030

If it comes down to it you should be able to recover the data on your SD card using the same sort of utility for camera sd cards etc.

If the card wasn’t formatted and is not corrupted it should all technically be there. I’m sure there are some free programs out there that can get it done.

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#2031

Yeah thank you both, good idea, I wouldn’t thinking about it think it would have the permissions to delete the actual files…ok after morning coffee I’ll give it a shot

So generally though still ssh into fates for all audio files?
Is this going to be implemented into maiden or not for this exact reason?

On osx

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#2032

If you’re on OSX, you don’t even need to ssh in. You can browse the shared files and drag/drop straight into your mac.

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#2033

well if you didn’t use the sd card after the accidental delete, remove it from service, clone it to an image and proceed to restore the files from this image (with something like testdisk/photorec). There’s a good chance it’ll work.

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#2034

Just fully built my fates and I’m trying to get the fates file off your GitHub for flashing. Tried a few different locations with good web connections but it fails. Are the servers slow today?

#2035

finished my fates build a few days ago and had a lot of fun with it! Now I tried to get some other scripts and maiden just doesn’t show them. so when I try to update the lists its just loading and nothing happens. is there something that I forgot to setup? the fates is of course connected to my network via wifi. also ssh-ing from my Mac doesn’t work, just loading forever …

#2036

see above, you don’t need to SSH in. one of the coolest things about Norns and Fates is you can just surf to it from Finder. you will need the login and password, we/sleep.

#2037

Its nice that I don’t have to, but I would like to if it’s possible. Also I wanted to expand the filesystem via ssh.

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