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Just purchased Roli and Six for my classroom. Six is up and running, actually dancing. Roli will not power on. We have taken him apart and put him back to together multiple times. We even check the connections in Roli's belly. He's still not powering on.
Thank you.
You won't have to disconnect the wires from Six. However, it might be a little snug to plug the Six ez-b into the Roli with the servos still attached. It'll be a fun exercise at any extent
As for Roli - you might as well disconnect all the wires because it doesn't seem to be working.
It's important that the Roli Red and Black wires that you had asked about are connected to the correct location. If they are connected to the opposite side or a different location, the EZ-B will be damaged and Roli will not turn on. Just like if you were to connect your home theater incorrectly
Roli's tutorials can be found in the Learn section. This is the main tutorial list: https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Course/3
The wiring tutorial is here: https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Lesson/44?courseId=3
I've circled the wiring tutorial
Hope this helps for the future
Our goal is to continue making it as easy as we can. The Learn section has step by step tutorials to get your robot up and operational!
That's the tutorial I found and looked at to figure out the correct wire placement. I was able to remove the ezb(that's the square with the ports?) from Roli and place in Six. A light came on the ezb when I switched Roli's power button on. I placed it back in Roli and it does not light up.
My apologies. When I placed the ezb in Six a light came on. It did not come on when in Roli.
To clarify, the EZ-B from ROLI does not light up when placed into SIX. Is that correct?
That's good to know - it means your EZ-B is good. You can find out more about the EZ-B in the Learn section for Roli's tutorial here to help identify it in the future: https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Lesson/12?courseId=3 (it's step #4 of the lesson in learn section)
The EZ-B is the brain of the robot. It's the most expensive part to manufacture, so we make it modular - meaning you can take it out of the robot. This keeps consumer cost down because you can swap them out. And, if one is damaged you can replace it without having to replace the whole robot.
So your EZ-B is good. This means the fuse may be blown in the Roli. That's most likely the case - specifically when the Black and Red wires may have been accidently connected in the wrong place during experimenting.
The fuse can be replaced easily as well. The Lesson for that is in Roli's learn section, and here is a direct link: https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Lesson/47?courseId=3