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When boards have the resistors, then they usually have a pin or solder jumper to enable them, because only on resistor is needed for each line... (otherwise, the behavior would be dependent on the number of connected devices to a point where either drivers could not fan the load anymore and signals become useless.... like: if too many people hold the rope down or up, no single individual would be able to raise or lower it! Espruino (STM MC) has a pull-down/pull-up option on the pins, but in this case it is too weak for I2C: 30..40K vs 4K7 (even though 4K7 works for most cases, the answer for 'What value the resistor should have?' is not that simple). --- How to get something tested right away until you get your resistors? Do you have some unused GPIO ports left? Configure 2..4 of them as pinMode(,"input_pullup") and connect them to SCL and SDA - of course for each individually - that gives you at least some pulling and may already help... ;-) --- This is not the 'production' solution... but Apollo13 parents still a lot of creativity!
Some error messages get a bit convoluted on bubbling up, especially the uncaught / unexpected ones, because it is expected that under normal circumstances the hardware is properly setup - no offense here, the culprit could just be the well known faulty breadboard contact - and wasting space to bubble up all variations is a waste of space... especially when there is a stack trace available as in Espruino (thank you @Gordon... robust and concise software design and implementation).