Decided to build a second one with a different board. I wired up the raspberry pi zero & USB wires as per steps 12-14 here (https://github.com/kiteretro/Circuit-Sw ... Sword-Lite) and the "OK" LED worked.
When I hooked up the backboard and ran in tester mode, I had the failures in the picture.
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Thanks!