#16

I put one of these together this evening. There were no shorts or obvious errors with my build…it’s a very simple build. However, when I plugged my Grid into it, and then into my Ansible, it was not recognized. After this, I plugged it directly into my Ansible, which was previously working, with no response. I also plugged it through a Switch to my Teletype. Again, this was previously working but now I get no response.

It is also not recognized by my laptop, though to be fair I had not tried that prior, so it’s not a good test.

In all cases, I get the 4 4 3 2 led flash in the upper left upon powering, but no activity after that.

is it possible I could have caused damage from using Offworld-1?

#17

@xenus_dad

i can’t imagine how any damage could have occurred. did you try a different USB cable? if still not working, e-mail info@monome.org and we’ll set up a repair

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#18

Shameful… With a different cable it works fine. I blame the later evening and a bit of whiskey.

Apologies for the noise, and thanks for the response!

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#19

I’ve soldered one of these together in a pretty rushed/average manner and had a relatively large break between when I soldered it and when I was able to test. Tried with multiple cables and power sources with no success. Does anyone have any tips for getting in there with a multimeter to check whether the problem is with my soldering or not?

#20

i’d suggest just fully reheating every solder joint. there aren’t very many of them.

also swap out your USB cables, that might be the problem

#21

Ensure all three cables work individually to connect your grid. I had trouble using a cable grid & Ansible were unhappy with with my Offworld, even for the power connection. Probably user error but still, make sure all three are good.

Can you post pics of your build?

#22

could i plug a keyboard and grid into a usb hub, into offworld-1, into teletype (and power)?

#23

libavr32 code used by teletype/trilogy/ansible doesn’t support usb hub protocol, so this won’t work unfortunately.

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#24

ah, wishful thinking. I actually have offworld-1 mounted in a pretty convenient spot for swapping so not a huge deal

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#25

the cool thing with intellijel case is you can use the usb tile to power the offworld.

#26

o neat!

(tagent) I currently have a surge protector mounted underneath the board which has one of the iphone outlet plug -> usb adapters. I’m planning on updating that to a two usb port version, as I’ve run out of room to power norns as well (and I’m working on an auxillary board with norns/keyboard/grid and nanokontrol faders to use with the modular/pedal system) will share in the standalone instruments thread once I get it all figured out and wired up.

#27

soldered pcbs in stock. https://market.monome.org/products/offworld-1

these no longer include the plexi covers. price lowered.

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#28

Thanks for making these available again. I did the y-splitter thing, but it’s nice to have both options!

#29

Thanks @tehn and @bpcmusic!

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#30

I would love a modded offworld with male usb-c on one end and female Micro USB for power and female standard usb for data on the other end. To be able to plug in external midi controllers to my OP-Z while charging… would this be an easy breadboard build? it’s all about signal routing, am I right?

#31

one problem will be finding any form of usb-c connector that can be easily breadboarded; most are SMD, and the few that are through-hole aren’t breadboard friendly. there are small usb-c “modules” that exist, where someone has broken then out to breadboard/perfboard-size pins. I’d recommend just making a custom board.

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#32

I’m not sure a breadboardable USB-C connector exists. USB A/B connectors are 5 pins, USB-C is 24 pins. There’s also extra circuitry inside USB-C cables (e-marked cables) which needs corresponding components on the host side for compatibility.

You might be better off trying to find a commercial power splitter + adapters.

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#33

yeah. did some research now as well. not sure if I want to climb down the USB-C compability rabbit hole. I guess I’ll keep searching for a lean splitter.

Edit:
Something like this would be prefect. But it looks like they gave up on the usbC rabbit hole as well.

#34

I’m having a hard time getting one of these up and running. I’ve soldered up all three boards that came in my order and am having a consistent issue: the Grid will receive power through the Offworld, but the grid will not get recognized by any of my devices (computer, teletype, ansible). I’ve tested with a variety of cables, all of which I can get to work when plugging the Grid straight into a device.

My question now is whether I’m misinterpreting the Offworld board itself. On the board, I can see the dark lines running from the USB A jack to one of the USB mini jacks (the “bottom” jack in my photo). I thought this would mean that the jack would be powering the Grid. However, the grid only receives power from the jack with no visible lines running to the USB A jack. Am I correct in that the USB A goes to the power source, the “top” jack goes to the grid, and the “bottom” jack goes to the teletype?

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#35

The USB-A jack goes to Grid.

The top USB-mini goes to power, the bottom USB-Mini (data) goes to Teletype/computer/etc…

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