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Throwing in the towel | HLH

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Last night I had strong hopes I would be recording my first gameplay video before going to bed. However, that did not happen.

 

As of this writing, the screen is working. Most of the buttons work. Except, when controlled by the Pi. When the Teensy and Pi are connected, it appears to create a short circuit. The troubling aspect is that when the Teensy is connected to my computer, no issue there. At least I have a Wii-U style controller for OpenEmu now. image

 

So the problem is with the Teensy, the Pi, or my wiring. I suspected the wiring first but cannot find an obvious fault. After that, I programmed a new Teensy but did not connect any wires. I get the same behavior by just connecting to the Pi’s USB, which is why I suspect the Pi. Perhaps I damaged the USB controller when de-populating the USB ports. When the kernel driver enables the USB controller, I see the 5 volt rail dip, the under voltage icon comes on (when the screen is connected), and sometimes the Pi reboots. If it makes it to EmulationStation, I can SSH in and see dmesg complaining about overcurrent.

 

Regardless, I have yet to start editing my video. Even if I could find and repair the fault in the next hour, I would not have time to finish a suitable video by the morning deadline.

 

I have never captured so much footage while working on a project. Right now my capture folder is sitting at 128 GB (interesting number) with more from yesterday’s SD Cards waiting for transfer.

 

So that what I captured does not go to waste, my goal is to re-work the project and produce an AddOhms video out of it.

 

Best of luck to everyone else. I look forward to watching your build videos and seeing who becomes the next Ben Heck.

 

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  • Hi James, Sorry to hear about the troubles you had with your project. I look forward to seeing your AddOhms video on the project. I'm sure it will turn out great!

  • You still have time to do your video - the deadline got extended.

    Looks like an awesome build - definitely submit a video.

  • Does the extra 2 days change anything for you James? image

  • James,

     

    Sorry to hear about your issues getting your project finished. Like others have said - sometimes this sort of thing happens, timescales slip, the unexpected happens. I'm absolutely sure the judges have enough background experience to have been there themselves in the past and will judge  your project from what it was aiming to do and what challenges you overcame. Think about school exams - we were always told to show the working out as sometimes you got high marks even though there was one mistake along the way that resulted in the incorrect answer.

     

    Look forward to seeing it finished still image

     

    Rod

  • in reply to baldengineer

    Fair call, and a lot of respect to you. I imagine as you already have a channel, it would be harder to publish something that you aren't 100% happy with image

     

    My interpretation is the same as well - but it's looking like quite a few contestants aren't finishing it 100% in time. It shall be interesting to see how that affects the results.

     

    I will definitely be styling mine as a "Part 1" video, assuming I can get something ready. It's the only way I can make it work as is. To be fair, Heck's original build was over two parts as well..

     

    Look forward to seeing your future content as well!