{"id":187,"date":"2020-04-04T18:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T23:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/?p=187"},"modified":"2020-04-04T18:27:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T23:27:23","slug":"altons-status-update-for-april-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/2020\/04\/04\/altons-status-update-for-april-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Alton’s Status Update for April 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Controllers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The laser cut pieces and hardware arrived this week so I was able to start building the controllers. Everything fits together surprisingly well for a first try.<\/p>\n

Here’s the pieces “dry-fitted” together with no hardware and no buttons:<\/p>\n

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With buttons and hardware:<\/p>\n

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I still have to finish wiring and soldering the controllers for them to be fully functional, but it looks like there won’t have to be a version 2. So far, I’ve soldered all the high-sides of each switch together and cut my perfboard for the connector:<\/p>\n

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PCBs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Nace was kind enough to loan me a soldering iron with a new tip, and Quinn ordered me some new tips from Amazon as well, so I was finally able to make substantial progress on soldering. I assembled one of the middleman PCBs and tested it with the music module. Here’s a video of the music working:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/17RBgs4mLhzgkbsUI3dyVoMKy5z9AHEfX\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n

Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m on schedule with my revised Gantt chart from last week. My goal this week is to finish the controller wiring (pull-down resistors, wiring to 2×8 connector) and start testing with the game.<\/p>\n

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