I’ve tried to scan through the forums to find similar posts, but wanted to ask here to make sure I’m not missing anything.
I bought a Maslow 4.1 back in March and it arrive in late April of this year. I had to move before I got it assembled, and it got put (carefully protected) in storage for couple few months. Recently pulled it out and began working on it with my oldest kid who’s a computer and mechanical engineer. I’m a computer engineer myself with a decent amount of experience working with component level and small circuit / Arduino projects…so not a complete newbie to the need to trouble shoot.
First thing we noticed when we got it all together is that it wouldn’t power on at all. There’s no boot activity, no lights, and no output to inform us of where to look for the issue.
We initially wondered if it might be the pins on the encoder headers per: Solution for disconnect and board wont start problem!
We disassembled the arms and clipped the pins on each encoder…they were indeed a bit long from the factory.
We’ve put it back together again and still get nothing when we try to connect the power cable or to USB. Still no lights, no activity of any kind.
I’m disabled and was hoping to use this for some larger projects to go into a van in the upcoming months that I’ll be presenting later to others for consideration. I’d been hoping to see it work well enough to get a “maker community” started locally … with Maslow as a key component of the shop…maybe order another (if it works as hoped), so would really like to figure out how to get this working enough to play with it to see if it will work for my needs. I have high expectations it will…once I can get the thing to turn on and configure/calibrate properly.
Anyone have any ideas of anything else I should check that might keep the unit from booting….other than the encoder pins issue?
Do I need to just buy another controller board?