@garyd9 Yes I can and good thinking!\
there was one screw, actually it was a nut, that was pretty lose on the mag balls on the carriage side. the pcb shim can sometimes have a bit of friction on it that can mask the fact that they are loose. after find that out I double checked all the mag ball nuts and found another one that was just a little bit loose
ok I took the board home at lunch so I could use a windows machine. bossa doesn't show anything under serial ports. device manager doesn't show anything under serial ports .....
@droftarts no word on what board to select in sam-ba for the 6hc?
@sirus20x6 ok so it looks like sam-ba v3 is not gui, but 2.17 is. I still need to find what board to select
@sirus20x6 so I was able to make some progress. it wasn't the tty or dialout group that I need, but uucp. after adding my user to that I could get ttyACM0 to show up. bossa still can't communicate with it, and the directions for sam-ba are basically non-existent.
trying to follow https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Installing_and_Updating_Firmware
"If using SAM-BA:
For Duet WiFi/Ethernet, select at91sam4e8-ek. For Maestro, select at91sam4s8-ek. Press Connect. A connection error will be reported if the wrong board is selected. "
first of all I have the 6hc which is neither of those so I don't know which one to select. second of all I don't have a gui... sam-ba appears to be a command line tool.
@droftarts well I've tried 3 usb cables so far, but we use usb cables in the product we manufacture so I have a few hundred more I could pull from to test.
I'm on arch linux.
windows is not available to me for testing
I have already followed the duet wont respond guide
Duet 3 MB6HC: There should be a red LED illuminated between the USB connector and SD card socket. The red 5V LED at the edge of the board should also be lit, so should the green 3.3V LED.
the 5v and 3.3v are lit
The DIAG LED may or may not be lit, but can help diagnosis:
Duet 3 MB6HC: DIAG LED is between the reset switch and the SD card socket
I don't have a diag led. I have a status led. it is just barely dimly lit. before erasing the firmware it was brightly lit.
the image flasher steps assume raspberry pi use. while we do have a few thousand pi 3 and pi4s in stock, I wasn't planning on using a pi with this setup.
I have already gone through hte steps for standalone mode formatting. first of all the official "sd card formatting tool" is a broken link. so that can't be used. secondly I really don't understand why I can't use a normal tool like gparted.
I have tried reformatting the sd card and filling it with firmware, sys, and www directories. it's not clear if anything more is needed.
I'll post an image momentarily but it looks fine
I've used duet boards before, but nothing from this generation. the first thing I tried to do was edit the config file to specify an IP and connect over ethernet. when that didn't work I tried usb and couldn't get anything new to show up under /dev/tty*
I tried another cable, and another. I made sure I had permissions for tty. I could see the open moko device with lsusb but I could not get any serial device for it to show up. nothing in dmesg, nothing in comparing ls/dev/tty* before plugging in and after. so then I tried to put new firmware and iap files on from the github page. I thought it might auto update the firmware. no change.
so after running out of options I used the erase firmware button. now the status led is dim, and I still can't get a connection.
I tried the bossa app, but the first thing it wants to know is the com port which the board never registers with my system. I saw that sometimes you may have to clear your firmware several times with a power down in between to get it to take. so I tried that and still no dice.
I've been searching everwhere for an sdcard image so I can reflash the sd card but I can't find that ANYWHERE I've been searching for hours.
Any help would be appreciated as right now this is a paper weight.
@garyd9 Yes I can and good thinking!\
there was one screw, actually it was a nut, that was pretty lose on the mag balls on the carriage side. the pcb shim can sometimes have a bit of friction on it that can mask the fact that they are loose. after find that out I double checked all the mag ball nuts and found another one that was just a little bit loose
Thanks for the tips! i found two loose screws!
Better?
https://i.imgur.com/7liUfV9.png
first print. a cooling fan!
https://i.imgur.com/j15KXRl.jpg
having trouble printing the adapter though because the screw holes fill in. might have to just drill it out and put the cooling fan on and print a second version
