Snake eyes not working - need help troubleshooting

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Snake eyes not working - need help troubleshooting

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The eyes show up on my big screen, and on one of the OLEDs for a short while, but then stopped.

I understand something might be incorrect with the soldering, but the eye that showed, why did that stop? Both eyes on my big screen continued...

I have been following the instructions on this site, and have a Rasberry pi 3

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Re: Snake eyes not working - need help troubleshooting

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Post a photo showing your hardware and connections and we'll take a look. 800x600 images usually work best.

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Re: Snake eyes not working - need help troubleshooting

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As you can see I'm not so good at soldering, which probably explains the eye that didn´t show anything, but the eye that started and then stopped?
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Re: Snake eyes not working - need help troubleshooting

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It is hard to see the solder joints very well in the picture, but some do look suspect. Any that look like a little ball are bad. You want them all to look like a cone with concave sides. You might look up a soldering guide that has pictures that might help. You should try reheating those and adding a little more solder. See if any of that helps.

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Re: Snake eyes not working - need help troubleshooting

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It does look like some of the solder joints need a bit of work.

Our soldering tutorial is here:

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-gui ... -soldering

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