Well this was fun. Just tried plugging the 12V in again, to see if anything changed, and the magic smoke came out of the chip near the 12V power plug. I assume that's the voltage regulator. And I had such high hopes for this board.
On Friday, May 19, 2017 at 9:13:51 AM UTC-4, chris Bruner wrote: > > Mine was working fine, until I let the battery that was running it die > down. Then it wouldn't restart (same lights as in parent photo). Also > seemed to be running hot. I was very excited about this board, but I need > more reliability then this. > > > On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 10:53:30 AM UTC-4, Ted Carancho wrote: >> >> Help! My BBBL just arrived Monday and was in the middle of porting my >> quadcopter code to it. I was able to get 9DOF measurements from it and >> decided to take it to the library with me, so I put it back into the static >> bag it came with, placed it in the original box in between the ESD foam it >> came with and placed it into my backpack. When I took it out, I found that >> it was unresponsive. I thought maybe I somehow bricked it by not doing a >> shutdown -h before unplugging it, so I tried to follow online directions on >> booting from an external uSD card. >> >> If I power the board from USB or an external 3S Lipo, all I see is the >> blue ON LED, the LIPO status LED stuck at 75, and the G and R LED's on >> (picture below). If I press the SD button with the uSD already plugged in >> and apply power, I don't see any blinking lights that tell me it's booting >> from the uSD card. >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Yc4XsOXH3Mo/WNyzdyE9ZfI/AAAAAAAAAUU/mO37vRZfgvs50Sxu9LFfIMP8Y4SxJQ0BACLcB/s1600/BBBL.JPG> >> >> >> I've tried the Debian 8.7 2017-03-19 >> <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-03-19-4gb.img.xz> >> IoT >> and Debian 8.7 2017-03-19 >> <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-03-19-4gb.img.xz> >> LXQT >> firmware, I tried a 8GB and a 32GB uSDHC card, I tried 2 different USB >> cables. When plugged into a USB port, I can't find the network access >> point to be able to login using 192.168.7.2, and also I can't ping the >> device over it's wireless network after I had configured the wifi using >> connman. >> >> I'm starting to think that the hardware was somehow damaged (but I felt I >> took appropriate ESD considerations, and transported it in its box). >> >> This is my first beagle bone product ever (but have used many Arduino's, >> RPI and Intel Edison). Is there some newbie mistake I'm making? Thanks >> for your help in advance! >> >> >> -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/7834ee18-6b06-4850-b97a-5a9998939cef%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
