Hi all, I only recently got an outrun midi cab and came across the smartypi and decided to have a go at building one myself as a little project.
Really lovely board to work on, however now that it’s all put together I’m having a bit of an issue. Once it’s turned on, the Smartypi logo screen appears after a few seconds and then it doesn’t do anything else other than show the Smartypi logo.
Per the guidance I checked the voltage before I connected the Smartypi, it was at 5.5v so brought it down to 5.09.
Once hooked up to the smartypi I also used the test points on the board and got the same reading.
I’ve checked wiring and everything is seated well and I also did another check on all of the parts and connections and made sure there were no bridges etc. oh and just to mention as part of the build I did flash the microcontroller with the latest update version from the Smartypi website download.
I’ve read that this kind of issue is likely from a problem with the microcontroller SD card file, which has the setup.txt file on it. I have tried with an edited version and just used the unedited one downloaded and not seen a difference.
I can connect to the raspberry Pi with my laptop using putty and winscp and I did wonder if it was because I needed to put the game files on the micro sd card but when navigating through the folders I saw there was one there that had rom files already in the data folder.
I’ve read through all the online guides but not seen anything that I think I’ve missed.
Has anyone else built one and if so any thoughts at all or pointers?
Thanks
John
Really lovely board to work on, however now that it’s all put together I’m having a bit of an issue. Once it’s turned on, the Smartypi logo screen appears after a few seconds and then it doesn’t do anything else other than show the Smartypi logo.
Per the guidance I checked the voltage before I connected the Smartypi, it was at 5.5v so brought it down to 5.09.
Once hooked up to the smartypi I also used the test points on the board and got the same reading.
I’ve checked wiring and everything is seated well and I also did another check on all of the parts and connections and made sure there were no bridges etc. oh and just to mention as part of the build I did flash the microcontroller with the latest update version from the Smartypi website download.
I’ve read that this kind of issue is likely from a problem with the microcontroller SD card file, which has the setup.txt file on it. I have tried with an edited version and just used the unedited one downloaded and not seen a difference.
I can connect to the raspberry Pi with my laptop using putty and winscp and I did wonder if it was because I needed to put the game files on the micro sd card but when navigating through the folders I saw there was one there that had rom files already in the data folder.
I’ve read through all the online guides but not seen anything that I think I’ve missed.
Has anyone else built one and if so any thoughts at all or pointers?
Thanks
John
