giuliomoro I am wondering if this may have to do with a particularly large project (for instance including large files, such as audio files).
It was just render.cpp and some similar header and cpp files, not something heavy with audio files etc
giuliomoro tsambou Someone told me that when running projects I should better use external power supply in order to not burn the board.
This is not true. Cold you elaborate?
I think someone told me that if there is too much current drawn by connected hardware I might encounter problems, so it's better powering the Bela with external 5v adaptor. Is that true?
giuliomoro tsambou Then I tried to power BBB just by USB and it didn't get any power (from neither of my USB ports).
that's interesting. Did the "PWR" LED come up?
No LEDs turned on
giuliomoro Do you mean that at that point you were able to load the IDE but downloading that same project failed? Did you try refreshing the IDE page? If you refresh it once the boards appears to have successfully booted, does that manage to reload successfully? Did you try downloading one of the projects you had already downloaded previously?
Can you describe the behaviour of the LEDs?
I did refresh the IDE, even restarted my laptop. The behavior of the LEDs I really cant describe, they always look to my like they're going crazy ))
giuliomoro What POWER button are you referring to?
Im referring to the small button on the side of the board, not the "RESET" but the other one next to the ethernet. Here https://bela.io/belaDiagram/ it is named "Power Button"
Thanks Giulio for the exhaustive response. Thankfully after about 10 minutes Bela got powered normally just with USB connection and I downloaded the files successfully. Or actually it was not quite successful because each time I changed to another project and downloaded the render to a folder, when I checked them out they ended up being the same render.cpp from one specific project. So I kind of lost everything else because I was deleting them as I was downloading so I had a clear view, since most of these projects were just examples which are meant to be combined at some point. So that's a bit sad, but anyway.
Dunno what could have been the problem. The external adaptor I am using is 5V 3A