Lights are on but no one is home
Been a while, apologies for the delay – got caught up in some chaos on another project (usernamecheck.com and it’s 100,000 visitors since it launched).
Anyway, back to this project. I finished the soldering today. At least finished until I need to fix all the bits that are buggy and broken.
I’ve managed to get to a point where I can get a horizontal (or vertical I guess) scrolling pattern. I was able to do all the serial name setting in XP in Parallels (more on that to come). It now shows up in “profiler” in OSX as the correct name, etc. Originally all the lights would come on, but I was matching in with in and out with out, but I think I was supposed to match in to out and vica versa – that is what I have now and I get the scrolling – which seems positive.
I can’t however see the arduinome in arduino serial or weirdly enough in the arduino client. It’s just not showing up under the devices – I just get all the bluetooth ones. More fiddling around tomorrow, I feel like I’m just trying stuff right now without even knowing what it might do – which is dangerous.
Have you installed the FTDI drivers from the folder called “Drivers” which comes when you download Arduino from arduino.cc? If not, this is probably why it isn’t showing up in Arduino, or in ArduinomeSerial.
There are two .dmg files in the Drivers folder, one for PPC macs and one for Intel macs.
If it isn’t showing up in Arudino, how did you get the firmware uploaded?
Good luck!
I don’t know if you already saw it but I have a schematic/wiring diagram here that might be useful: http://basementleds.blogspot.com/2008/07/schematic-for-bricktable-code.html
@Jordan No I don’t think I did, I’ll check that first thing tonight, might be a pretty obvious issue – thanks for flagging it.
When we did our geekathon my cohort Rick spent most of the evening fiddling with the arduino on it’s own, he was confident it had all the firmware it needed on it after following bricktable steps.
@basementleds that schematic looks awesome, unfortunately I’m a total n00b with this stuff so it might as well be in Hungarian. I keep promising myself that at the end of this once I have everything working, I’m going to try to pen an idiots guide to soldering an aruidonome – Soldering by numbers.
Am I right in my assumption that the scrolling horizontal turn on thing is a good sign (ignoring the missing column – which is sporadic and should be an easy fix).
haha I know that feeling
With the schematic, the most important things to know are that the numbers next to each of the lines coming out of a ‘box’ indicate which physical pin number they correspond to (i think they’re usually numbered from top left to bottom left, then top right to bottom right). Looking at these numbers, together with a datasheet for the component, you’ll be able to tell which leg of a component should be connected to what.
The other thing is that the green paths that disappear into thin air also have a code written on them, those codes often have a ‘twin’ somewhere in the schematic, and in ‘real life’ those paths are physically connected. In my diagram there are also some codes without twins, those are the ones that go to the arduino (which i haven’t included). Those all begin with ‘AR’, eg ‘AR_PIN9′.
Good luck!
Did installing those drivers help out? I’ll go add that to the Bricktable instructions as I seem to have forgot!
Thanks for pointing that out.
Jordan
I take that back– I did add that to the instructions a little while back. I made the “***” in red so its harder to overlook.
Yes the drivers fixed the “appearing” issue. For what it’s worth, it might be worth adding some links to the monome base download, since I did reach a point and go…. “errrm ok how do I know if this thing is actually working”.
good idea! will do that!
Hi,
Can you explain this a bit more – “Originally all the lights would come on, but I was matching in with in and out with out, but I think I was supposed to match in to out and vica versa – that is what I have now and I get the scrolling – which seems positive.”
I think I have the same problem. I’m getting all lights on and a scrolling row of unlit when I power on.
Have I soldered the LED cables to the button header on the shield?
Thanks
Tom
Check out my diagram.
At one point I basically had the IDC cables in reverse and turned 180 degrees.
Double check to see if you have the cables correct with the right orientation.
I had the grounds going to the In header on the shield and the led&switch lines going to the Out header.
After pointing the grounds to the Out header and led&switches to the In and following this posted by Jordan on the monome.org forum, it looks right:
Facing the boards bottom side up:
SWT-GND should all get 1-8 (reading from right to left respectively)
LED-GND should all get 9-16 (reading from right to left respectively)
SWITCH should all get 1-8 (reading from top to bottom respectively)
BLUE should all get 9-16 (reading from top to bottom respectively)
Cheers!