music maker - Couldn't find VS1053

Adafruit Ethernet, Motor, Proto, Wave, Datalogger, GPS Shields - etc!

Moderators: adafruit_support_bill, adafruit

Please be positive and constructive with your questions and comments.
Locked
User avatar
mironab
 
Posts: 21
Joined: Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:14 pm

music maker - Couldn't find VS1053

Post by mironab »

I have been using this code without any problems, fist with UNO, and now with Mega 2560.
(According to the instructions in the manual, I modified the music maker shield to make it compatible with Mega.)

But since this morning I am getting this message:

Adafruit VS1053 Simple Test
Couldn't find VS1053, do you have the right pins defined?

I attach the code and 2 pics of the shield.
Attachments
IMG_20180917_002924-2.jpg
IMG_20180917_002924-2.jpg (907.09 KiB) Viewed 736 times
IMG_20180917_002902-2.jpg
IMG_20180917_002902-2.jpg (814.9 KiB) Viewed 736 times

[The extension ino has been deactivated and can no longer be displayed.]


User avatar
adafruit_support_carter
 
Posts: 29056
Joined: Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:45 pm

Re: music maker - Couldn't find VS1053

Post by adafruit_support_carter »

As a quick check - if you go back to using the UNO, does it work OK?

User avatar
mironab
 
Posts: 21
Joined: Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:14 pm

Re: music maker - Couldn't find VS1053

Post by mironab »

I had to modify the shield to make it compatible with Mega, so I cannot desolder these changes or the 6-pin socket.
Attachments
Capture 1.JPG
Capture 1.JPG (60.05 KiB) Viewed 718 times
Capture.JPG
Capture.JPG (77.56 KiB) Viewed 718 times

User avatar
adafruit_support_carter
 
Posts: 29056
Joined: Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:45 pm

Re: music maker - Couldn't find VS1053

Post by adafruit_support_carter »

Do you have the correct line uncommented for using the shield in the example sketch:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_VS ... le.ino#L45

User avatar
mironab
 
Posts: 21
Joined: Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:14 pm

Re: music maker - Couldn't find VS1053

Post by mironab »

I did send the code in the first post. Here is again.
This code, and also much larger routines including this one, did work without any problem with both Uno and Mega.
Until it stopped working with this message.
Attachments

[The extension ino has been deactivated and can no longer be displayed.]


User avatar
adafruit_support_carter
 
Posts: 29056
Joined: Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:45 pm

Re: music maker - Couldn't find VS1053

Post by adafruit_support_carter »

Oops. Sorry. Totally missed that in the first post.

That looks fine. It worked and then it didn't - can you correlate that to anything? What was the last thing you were doing before it stopped responding.

Since it's failing in the initialization, it's acting like it can't see or talk to the board. Maybe there's a solder issue on the ICSP header. Can you post another photo that's more close up show the solder there.

User avatar
mironab
 
Posts: 21
Joined: Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:14 pm

Re: music maker - Couldn't find VS1053

Post by mironab »

I suspected the same thing. I went with a sharp knives between every pair of adjacent pins and I could not feel any short.
Attachments
isps 2-2.jpg
isps 2-2.jpg (791.15 KiB) Viewed 704 times
isps 1-2.jpg
isps 1-2.jpg (988.34 KiB) Viewed 704 times

User avatar
adafruit_support_carter
 
Posts: 29056
Joined: Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:45 pm

Re: music maker - Couldn't find VS1053

Post by adafruit_support_carter »

It looks like maybe there's a combination of too much solder + cold soldering going on for some of the pins:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-gui ... n-problems
If there is no other correlation for what happen to go from working to non-working, I'd suspect the soldering. If you have a multimeter, you can use that to check for any shorts due to solder bridges. You can also try reflowing the existing to soldering to see if you can get it wetted out a little more.

Locked
Please be positive and constructive with your questions and comments.

Return to “Arduino Shields from Adafruit”