1. Make sure all your IC’s have the notches facing your capacitors (or the bout, bin, etc writings). I had my 164 reversed. That was my first problem.

2. Make sure your resistor network has the dot facing the 1 on the pcb. That was my second problem.

After I fixed those two I had all my buttons working, but the lights didn’t work. Then I turned it off and read on monome some more. I turned it back on and nothing works… So I’m stuck now.

I posted my problems on monome.org — maybe someone out there knows what to look for next.
http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=2433

Also– I went off the bricktable schematic and then this one too. http://post.monome.org/?PostBackAction=Download&AttachmentID=771

Congrats on getting picked up by cnet– but yeah I can understand the stress.

http://flickr.com/photos/jdrews/2884962229/in/set-72157607384377172/

That’s what I was scared I’d end up with. Bear in mind it might not be shorts it might just be board to break-off bit of shield. Do you have all those wired up correctly? What did you work from (I still need a decent picture, I’m afraid of the one of bricktable, although it seems the best (when I get it working, I promise I’ll give back to the community by making diagrams of everything I’ve done.

Haven’t had a chance to do any more since this post, had a pet project online get picked up by cnet amongst others and it’s exploded. Went from 9 visitors on Monday to just over 30,000 in the last 36 hours. Everything’ failed, server, my code, my nerves, the lot.

I’ll probably spend some time tomorrow night, I need to get away from looking at code.

Tomorrow night I’m gonna do some heavy multimeter work. I don’t see any shorts anywhere– but apparently I have them…

Here’s my progress: http://flickr.com/photos/jdrews/sets/72157607384377172/