Posted by Scott in Rambles
We broke our Propeller propstick usb. As it is the only one we have, things have kind of slowed up until I can get a couple new ones ordered. Maybe we were too clumsy, maybe it was just not well built, but the surface mounted usb jack popped right off. We tried re-affixing it a few different ways, but to no avail. The chip will still be useful, but we just can’t talk to it.
On a positive note we redid the cable situation. Unfortunately until we get the new propeller chip connector in the mail, we won’t be able to test things out. We are so close to making big progress. This has been frustrating, hence the lack of posts.
Posted by Scott in Rambles
After essentially rushing to try to get something hooked up on our first go around, we took a little extra time to figure out what was going on. In the process Kevin worked up a much better debugging solution and Scott proved an age old truth…always check the cables.
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Posted by Scott in Rambles
Ok. Enough of this soldering and coding. Lets put the machine back together and see what happens. At this point we have quite a lot of confidence that our little proof of concept hookup will work. What’s the worst thing that could happen? Ok, electrocution, but besides that?
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Posted by Scott in Rambles
After a bit of tinkering and struggling with the Propeller tools (yeaaargh!) Kevin was able to work up some code for enabling the dedicated switch bank and reading the state of the switches. If we can accurately detect the state of these switches, we have gone a long way toward showing that our interface concept will work.
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