No wheel displayed when connecting Spoke POV - OS X 10.6

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No wheel displayed when connecting Spoke POV - OS X 10.6

Post by Bones »

Hello,

I've got one of my SpokePOVs that is behaving oddly when I connect it up to the 1.4 software under OS X. It's able to establish the USB connection, but once it does the software simply has a blank screen. No wheel is shown nor do I have the option to read/write/verify the contents of the spoke. Here's what it looks like

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I've got two other spokes that are working fine, just this one is acting a bit flaky. I'm sure the collection of playa dust is not helping but I've tried to clean it up as much as I can without any change in behavior.

Any ideas what the problem might be? My best guess is that the ROM chip has gone bad

Thanks!

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Re: No wheel displayed when connecting Spoke POV - OS X 10.6

Post by adafruit »

try swapping chips, it sounds like a bad connection

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Re: No wheel displayed when connecting Spoke POV - OS X 10.6

Post by Bones »

Swapped the ROM chip between one of the working spokes and the non-working one, and sure enough the problem followed the chip.

So I suppose I just need to get a replacement ROM chip from Mouser and call it good

Thanks!

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Re: No wheel displayed when connecting Spoke POV - OS X 10.6

Post by adafruit »

great! that was easy :)

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