Timeline for Question about Breadboard positioning
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| Feb 14, 2015 at 19:10 | comment | added | JChris | Just an update: I didn't break any pin in the Pi, I've run a test and everything is fine :) | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 3:16 | comment | added | Steve Robillard | Better to remove the cable. I would also suggest getting yourself a digital multimeter. Sparkfun.com and adafruit.com have some basic electronics tutorials and adafruit has a whole series of Pi tutorials. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 3:12 | comment | added | JChris | Yes, definitely that didn't occur to me. Reading your link I saw "All GPIO peripherals must be removed to perform this test.", does it mean that I need to remove the gray cable from the Pi, or just remove things like button, LED, resistors from the board? | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 3:08 | comment | added | Steve Robillard | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 3:06 | comment | added | JChris | Thanks. And you said something about a blue smoke, but that didn't happen. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 3:05 | comment | added | Steve Robillard | You could check out this wiringpi.com/the-gpio-utility/pin-test. It isn't perfect but it should give you a good idea if something is broken. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 2:58 | comment | added | JChris | Well, I was afraid I'd kill or at least damage my Pi soon or later. I will buy another one (maybe the new Pi 2) when I learn more about it. Is there a way to check if I really killed one pin in the Pi? | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 2:53 | comment | added | Steve Robillard | I mean one of the 26 physical pins on the Pi. Consider a lesson learned to always check your connections twice. Some components have a polarity (they need to be connected a specific way like a battery). A Google search for current limiting resistors LED's should get you started. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 2:51 | comment | added | JChris | pin, you mean, that role? Well, is it cheap to buy a new board like that? Anyway, I'll search about resistors now and try to use that role again to see if it still works | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 2:49 | comment | added | Steve Robillard | You probably didn't kill the board but you may have killed a pin. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 2:47 | comment | added | JChris | Killed the LED, not the board/role, right? The LED is cheap, I'll buy new ones anyway. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 2:39 | comment | added | Steve Robillard | The little sound usually means that you have killed it (let out the magic blue smoke). That is what can happen when you don't use a resistor. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 2:35 | comment | added | JChris | Just wondering. The Blue LEDs works normal, bigger in the 3.3 + and smaller in the 3.3 -. But other colors like green didn't work, and the yellow made a little sound and a tiny light in the hole and the Pi reboot =p Maybe those need the resistor? | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 2:34 | vote | accept | JChris | ||
| Feb 13, 2015 at 2:33 | history | answered | Steve Robillard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |