Week 10: Interface and Application Programming
IT'S HARD TO WORK ON SOFTWARE WHEN THE HARDWARE KEEPS BREAKING!!
ESP's and tiny traces are (still) the bane of my existance
Trying to reuse the board for a third week in a row while also trying to completely redesign it. The final redesign can be found in my final project. Notably in the use of a breakout board accelerometer.
Why a breakout board, you may ask?
Well, the bulk of my time this week was spent doing the surgery (documented in week 8) and trying to fix this surface mount teeny accelerometer to no avail.
Worst case, the interface I used in week 11 to send signals via wifi to turn an LED strip red or blue might be the shoddiest example ever for this week.
Trying to reuse the board for a third week in a row while also trying to completely redesign it. The final redesign can be found in my final project. Notably in the use of a breakout board accelerometer.
Why a breakout board, you may ask?
Well, the bulk of my time this week was spent doing the surgery (documented in week 8) and trying to fix this surface mount teeny accelerometer to no avail.
Worst case, the interface I used in week 11 to send signals via wifi to turn an LED strip red or blue might be the shoddiest example ever for this week.
To do!
Since I would like to visualize the output of an
accelerometer in the form of changing color (to inform how to
program the LEDs for my final project) I would need working hardware
first.
By the end of htmaa, I finally got the *one* accelerometer/gyroscope breakout board I had working ONCE (after desoldering and resoldering onto at least 3 different boards) only to have one of my traces break off due to lack of foresight on the mechanical strength of through-hole pins as I was using them.
Anyway, I brought home over winter break a blank milled board and old boards for stuffing parts to recreate and do again.
By the end of htmaa, I finally got the *one* accelerometer/gyroscope breakout board I had working ONCE (after desoldering and resoldering onto at least 3 different boards) only to have one of my traces break off due to lack of foresight on the mechanical strength of through-hole pins as I was using them.
Anyway, I brought home over winter break a blank milled board and old boards for stuffing parts to recreate and do again.
