Machine Interface

Not a huge leap of reasoning here, but it became very clear to me that we won’t make any show-off level progress until we get the basic machine interface in place. The goal is to get some response from the main hardware players: dedicated switches, switch matrix, lamp matrix, flash lamps and coils. Our first proof of concept touched the dedicate switches and was done in the Propeller’s high level programming language (spin). In order to push past this stage there was a bit of a ramp up required. Read on as we go on a search for software tools and retrain our brain to think in way it hasn’t for quite awhile.

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Best of intentions clearly haven’t helped.

Here is the 10,000 ft view of what’s been going on…

1. Lots of research on electronics.
2. Lots of studying on Propeller chip assembly.
3. Hernia. (ouch)
4. Hernia Operation. (ouch ouch)
5. General malaise during recovery.
6. Kick in the pants to lazy couch dweller. (ouch)
7. Rewrite of the dedicated switch code in new asm model. (Works!)
8. Rewiring of the proto board to fix grounding issues. (Video Works!)
9. Introduction of switch matrix code which is now being debugged. (Doesn’t quite work)

I’ll quickly cover #2, then get writing on progress starting from #7.