Lightsaber - RGB Button/speeaker not working

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Lightsaber - RGB Button/speeaker not working

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Feather M4 express blinks green when power is applied. Enable switch works properly, but speaker and RGB LED momentary switch does absolutely nothing.

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Absolutely nothing"? AI take that to mean there's no sound from the speaker and no light from the RGB switch. Does the push button aspect of the RGB switch work?

Have you double-checked the wiring of the LED in the switch? Does your code enable power to the PropMaker wing?

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light blinks green, cant get my PC recognize the device. "FEATHERBOOT" disc drive won't appear. BTW, my soldering is on point

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double clicked reset button, solid red

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Finally connected to my computer, tried 3 micro-usb cables.
Step by step with the tutorial
Featherboot showed up as E drive, then dropped in circuitpython uf2 file, E drive changed to CIRCUITPY
Downloaded Propmaker_Lightsaber file folder, dropped in sounds, lib, and code.py
Downloaded MU, clicked load to get the code, saved.
Feather currently has "charging" LED on (cause its plugged in), RGB pixel flashed multiple times, different colors, I saw red, white, blue, green, but no solid green
currently it's flashing - yellow? idk, looks like a mix between green/yellow/red
played around in MU , clicked serial got this msg: "You are in safe mode because: The microcontroller's power dipped"
Another thing with MU, when I hit "check", it highlights part of the code with an error: "Do not use bare 'except'. there were some other ones too, but not showing as I type this.
I didn't alter the code at all

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Now I'm stuck in safe mode.

I'm so lost, I followed the tutorial and still ran into issues

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Well everyone, I fixed the problem, I decided to smash my propmaker/feather with a sledge hammer and am now going to buy a different company board

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