Cauldron Skeleton

[youngti]

Sure enough it is a 2.  Can you put a larger capacity card and have it work in the HC-8?  So long as it's a 4 or 6?

[JonnyMac]

Yep, I once ran a 16G card in a test.

[youngti]

okay, i wll have to see if I can drag myself over to best buy.

[JackMan]

Yep, I'm using an 8GB  Sandisk Ultra in mine, works fine.

[youngti]

What about class 10?

[JonnyMac]

That would be fantastic! I use Class 10 cards for HiDef video recording in my HDSLR.

[youngti]

So I got a Sandisk class 6 4 GB and started the recording process.  Formated the card as fat.  It went about 1 minutes into the first recording and then the servos stopped responding and just would jerk every few seconds.  I did get a couple recording before but now I can't seem to get one.  I am using the same separate power supply which is a 5v 8amp but it will not complete a recording.  Any suggestions would be great.

[JonnyMac]

This is happening during the recording process?

[youngti]

Yes.  Also the two vixen files I sent you I was able to record.  But when I used your code the results were as I explained before in my posts.

[JonnyMac]

Tim,

I just checked my email (inbox and trash in case of accidental deletion) and I don't see the files. Can you ZIP and send the audio and Vixen files (first group) so I can attempt to play them on my system?

jwilliams at efx-tek dot com

[youngti]

here is the vixen.

[youngti]

I am trying to send the audio but both seem to be too large for your system even zipped.  One is aroung 4800kb and the other is 2078kb.

[youngti]

I am unable to send the audio

[JonnyMac]

No worries.

Having had a little rest between today and the last version, I found a couple "gotchas" and decided to simplify the architecture a bit.  With the debugging information I added and used, it seems to be working on my end (did not try the audio since I don't have yours and I have tested/used those routines with others).

I disabled the terminal debug so you don't have to worry about that.  What you'll notice now is that when the ambient file is playing the big LED on the board will flash fast red; when your main file is playing it will flash fast green.  I did in fact connect a button to IN0 and verified that it interrupts the ambient show and jumps to the main.

Hopefully, we're very close if not there -- and just in time!  Also, after you download the program you may want to power down for 10s and then power back up, just to ensure the uSD card resets properly.

[JonnyMac]

BTW... slow red blinks are uSD or file errors.