Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
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- Froggy92030
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
Correct. This is what I see as soon as I plug the USB into the M4
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
I made a pair of wings at the beginning of the year that uses Circuitpython 7.2.5. Out of curiosity I plugged that M4 into the assembly we just made with the powerbank and it works beautifully. I did try copying the code from the working board to the nonworking board and it still did nothing.
- dastels
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
OK. the next thing is to try installing 7.2.5 onto the badly behaving Feather. https://adafruit-circuit-python.s3.amaz ... -7.2.5.uf2
If that works, reinstall 7.3.2 and see if that works.
Dave
If that works, reinstall 7.3.2 and see if that works.
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
I am making the wings as well but ran into the same issue of no powerboost. Do you mind if I know which powerbank you bought and how you connected it?Froggy92030 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 7:46 pm Great thanks! I have ordered and am going to give it a try
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
chailou wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:22 pmI am making the wings as well but ran into the same issue of no powerboost. Do you mind if I know which powerbank you bought and how you connected it?Froggy92030 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 7:46 pm Great thanks! I have ordered and am going to give it a try
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I got this powerbank. https://www.adafruit.com/product/1959
the wiring wasn't too bad just had to make some small modifications. I kind of took this post over but everything I did to wire it is in the post
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
So when I install the link for the 7.2.5 that you provided it installs the whole bundle on the board and nothing works. Its not just changing it from the featherboot to Circuitpython for me to then install everything else seperately. It is still not working.dastels wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 5:20 pm OK. the next thing is to try installing 7.2.5 onto the badly behaving Feather. https://adafruit-circuit-python.s3.amaz ... -7.2.5.uf2
If that works, reinstall 7.3.2 and see if that works.
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
Weird... that should just be the UF2 of the runtime.
Yes, that worked exactly as expected on one of my Feather M4 Expresses.
You downloaded, and copied the UF2 to FEATHERBOOT?
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Yes, that worked exactly as expected on one of my Feather M4 Expresses.
You downloaded, and copied the UF2 to FEATHERBOOT?
Dave
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
I reset the feather so that it shows featherboot. Click the link you provided and then added it to the feather. The lib includes
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
This is what the lib shows after adding the UF2 file. My pics are out of order. Sorry about that.
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
But did you download from that URL and then copy the downloaded UF2 to FEATHERBOOT? I'm not clear on that.
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
I clicked the link you provided and it automatically downloaded. I then went into my downloads and drug the UF2 to the featherboot. After I put the UF2 on the featherboot it changed to circuitpython. It also had all of the servos and code files with it. I did not add those.
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
They must have been there before. Reinstalling CP doesn't change what's on CIRCUITPY if it's already been set up.
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
I pressed the reset button on the feather twice to make it the featherboot again. I cheched the folders that were there and none of the servos or code stuff is listed when its featherboot. This is a screen shot of everything that the featherboot has on it until i change it to circuitpython.
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
Right, FEATHERBOOT isn't *really* a drive, it's the bootloader. It's whole purpose is to let you easily install UF2s. That's all you should worry about it for. The CIRCUITPY drive is the flash filesystem used by CircuitPython where your code, libraries, sounds, bitmaps, etc are stored. They are two completely different things.
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Re: Question about the Powerboost part used with the fairy wings project
ahh got it. So I did install the version you linked me to and tried to run the code. I still got the same response in REPL
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