Raspberry pi won't boot
Help please my pi is showing red and green light only, I tried different hdmi cables as well as using the composite cable, when I plug in the memory card it came with in my Ubuntu 15.10 laptop to view...
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I think the SD card I have is defective, would you suggest I just try another SD card and try to download all the Rasbian software?
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Ta for the update :) Info stops the mind going off on one and thinking crazy stuff like pirates have raided your stash and made of with all the dabloons ^W Flotillas ;)
View ArticleRaspberry pi won't boot
That worked, thanks I reformatted a different SD card moved the files over to it and it was up and running. Thanks
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No worries, I type fast hahahaha Any prevision on sales? Hope good for you but slow enough to get one, I'll be ready before 12 pm.
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Our first batch sold out in 4 hours, can't really speculate to how this batch will do with people knowing about it!
View ArticleExplorerHAT Pro Blue LED failure
Hi, I received two days ago an ExplorerHAT Pro. I installed it today and run test.py. I realized that the blue LED was on during the first try of the loop but in the next ones it was off or was...
View ArticleExplorerHAT Pro Blue LED failure
I'm no expert but if it lights up at all I'd say the most likely is a bad solder point if your set up, i.e Black HAT. Any way you could try to connect the HAT direct to the Pi (via link up cable if...
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RogueM makes a good point! Also possible that the GPIO cable is faulty. How good is your power supply by the way? Can you measure the 5V rail while running your test? The reason I question the power...
View ArticleExplorerHAT Pro Blue LED failure
Thank you both for your answers. I have been checking the pinout and comparing with the SenseHat, which worked properly last time I tried, but this is not a common pin among these two HATs. I won't be...
View ArticleExplorerHAT Pro Blue LED failure
If it is the soldering then it appears to be a poor/intermittent joint. Continuity testing won't be ideal as it might beep one minute and not the next. Really you'd want to get a scope hooked up to it...
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I just realized that, as I tried in both rows of the Hack3r, or I am too bad at soldering hahahaha or the pin with the failure should be the one attached to the cable (or the cable). I'll check...
View ArticleExplorerHAT Pro Blue LED failure
Yes, ensuring all the solder points are kosher is the not-so-fun part of assembling the Black HAT, but since it is a multipurpose tinkering sketchpad it is worth the effort and will save you time...
View ArticleExplorerHAT Pro Blue LED failure
Any example of how to test ithe soldering t's good? I am newbie (specially to soldering), you already realized I'm sure hahaha, and English is not my mother tongue so I need, not a step-by-step, but...
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Feel free to post a photo of the solder joints! Another avenue worth exploring is hooking up a standard LED directly to the same GPIO pin and seeing if it behaves the same, perhaps that GPIO pin is...
View ArticleExplorerHAT Pro Blue LED failure
For testing the Black HAT soldering my method is to use a LED bus I have lying around to test 4-6 pins in one go, which is essentially a continuity test but as Jon pointed out it's pretty crude...
View ArticleExplorerHAT Pro Blue LED failure
One tip I can give you though is to use a magnifier to inspect your work. It will not only allow you to fix potentially dodgy joints ahead of them making your life a misery, but you'll learn a lot...
View ArticleExplorerHAT Pro Blue LED failure
Thank you both for the tips. I first soldered some broken PCB's and then, when I felt confortable enough with soldering, tried the HAT. Some points are not too beautiful, but I think is not completely...
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I was successful running the updater on my Picade, but I have to hit the reset button. So that means I can at least program it. Looking in the temporary directory the Arduino IDE makes I see two...
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