Posted by Scott in Rambles
I know. Bad blogger.
We have had a few other non-pinball projects jump in the way lately, but there has been progress on the machine interface coding. I’m hoping to get an update posted on that this week.
On the positive side, the work area is now cleaned up and usable!
I’m also setting a goal to post once a week to keep the flow. They say it takes three weeks to make or break a habit. I’m confident.
Posted by Scott in Rambles
I find that one of the best ways to know if you understand something is to see if you are able to explain it to someone else.
To that end, I’m going to see if the plan knocking around in my head can be written up in anything near a coherent fashion. Now that I know that the controller can successfully talk to the pinball’s CPU board, it is time to focus on writing more code. This then is the first pass at describing the software system structure. I guarantee it will change, but you have to start somewhere. Read on!
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