Just like the real Spirit Rover.
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 2:47 am
Just like the real Spirit Rover on Mars mine has died. It started by apparently running some bad pixel code. The Rover started to act funny. Upon reboot my RPI-3 would boot to four raspberries. No problem I will burn it some new brains as I had a second 64gb SD card. Fifteen minutes later new brains were installed. Plug in monitor, keyboard, mouse and video. Plug in power. Nothing. Power light comes on is all that happens. No activity on activity led.
Okay. Remove SD brain and plug it into the Windows PC. Computer says "what brain". No SD card found. Humm.
Wait I just burned an image 15 minutes ago and you even verified that the burn was good. Now you can not find the card.
What the heck....
Plug in original 16gb SD card that came with RPI-3. Computer says there is a 512kb card here. Do you want me to format it. Humm. What the heck again....
Plug in 64 gb SD card that was in it when I ran bad pixel code. Computer beeps a lot. Install driver, uninstall driver, install driver, uninstall driver, install driver, uninstall driver. Humm. This seems like a serious problem.. Maybe my SD read/writer is having an issue. Maybe it is the RPI-3.
Lets remove RPI-3 from Rover.. That pretty much means dissecting it all. Not looking forward to that as I remember how much in pain-in-the-*** is was to put this together. Damn tiny screws..
Darn.. they goes a nut somewhere into the basement into the never never land.
Darn.. there goes another never to be found again..
Kevin.. if your ears are burning it is because I am cursing you for designed this to be so miniature and pretty much un-serviceable. On the other hand it is like the real Mars Rover. On another planet and un-serviceable.
I think there should be mandate. Only 4-40 should be the smallest screws and nuts allowed.
Finally 15 minutes later the RPI-3 is in my hands. Hours to put it together. Fifteen minutes to take it apart. The irony.
Now the RPI-3 is sitting by itself. I Plug in monitor, keyboard, mouse and video into RPI-3. Plug in 64gb that was in it when it booted to four raspberries. Plug in power. no raspberries this time. The power LED comes on the board. Nothing else.
Unplug power. Pull out 64gd SD chip. Immediately drop the SD chip as it burns my finger tips.
I am guessing at this point my RPI-3 has a serious problem and not my card reader/writer. Three dead SD memory chips.
Lucky for me I can order another RPI-3 for my Spirit Rover unlike the Spirit Rover on Mars.
The big questions is what could cause this ???
I can not see how running some possible bad code could turn a RPI-3 in a self destructing SD card monster.
Has anyone heard of this happening ?
Okay. Remove SD brain and plug it into the Windows PC. Computer says "what brain". No SD card found. Humm.
Wait I just burned an image 15 minutes ago and you even verified that the burn was good. Now you can not find the card.
What the heck....
Plug in original 16gb SD card that came with RPI-3. Computer says there is a 512kb card here. Do you want me to format it. Humm. What the heck again....
Plug in 64 gb SD card that was in it when I ran bad pixel code. Computer beeps a lot. Install driver, uninstall driver, install driver, uninstall driver, install driver, uninstall driver. Humm. This seems like a serious problem.. Maybe my SD read/writer is having an issue. Maybe it is the RPI-3.
Lets remove RPI-3 from Rover.. That pretty much means dissecting it all. Not looking forward to that as I remember how much in pain-in-the-*** is was to put this together. Damn tiny screws..
Darn.. they goes a nut somewhere into the basement into the never never land.
Darn.. there goes another never to be found again..
Kevin.. if your ears are burning it is because I am cursing you for designed this to be so miniature and pretty much un-serviceable. On the other hand it is like the real Mars Rover. On another planet and un-serviceable.
I think there should be mandate. Only 4-40 should be the smallest screws and nuts allowed.
Finally 15 minutes later the RPI-3 is in my hands. Hours to put it together. Fifteen minutes to take it apart. The irony.
Now the RPI-3 is sitting by itself. I Plug in monitor, keyboard, mouse and video into RPI-3. Plug in 64gb that was in it when it booted to four raspberries. Plug in power. no raspberries this time. The power LED comes on the board. Nothing else.
Unplug power. Pull out 64gd SD chip. Immediately drop the SD chip as it burns my finger tips.
I am guessing at this point my RPI-3 has a serious problem and not my card reader/writer. Three dead SD memory chips.
Lucky for me I can order another RPI-3 for my Spirit Rover unlike the Spirit Rover on Mars.
The big questions is what could cause this ???
I can not see how running some possible bad code could turn a RPI-3 in a self destructing SD card monster.
Has anyone heard of this happening ?