This week, I finished designing and printing all of the threaded board standoffs and used them to assemble the full chess board from the 4 segments along with pieces of FR4. Once the board was fully assembled, we soldered all of the jumper resistors to make all the electrical connections between the 4 board segments. After doing this, I tested the sensor outputs to ensure all 64 sensors were making good contact with all pins. We also tested power regulation and the LED control.
Progress is still on schedule as we will begin the integration process between hardware and firmware this coming week in preparation for the interim demo.
In the next week, I hope to have the board in a state where the computer can sample a board state using all of the sensors. This means Patrick and I will need to work together on integrating the firmware with the ADC and multiplexers.
