Sunday, April 13, 2014

Back on Track

Finally was able to sit down and solder for a little bit yesterday.

Completed all connections from the 589 parallel outs to pull down resistors, from the 589 serial out to 'duino, grounds, voltage and control lines from 'duino to 589.

Remaining work:

  • control lines from duino to 595 set
  • ground from 595 set to duino
  • voltage from duino to 595 set
  • line from duino to speaker resistor
  • ground second set of LEDs to duino
  • and probably should expose some convenient pins to attach the speaker wires

Wow.  All of the sudden, the workload looks reasonable and testing is in sight.  I only have 2 months left to finish on schedule.

I am still not very confident in my soldering and hope testing isn't overwhelmingly painful, requiring a bunch of resoldered joints.  I am afraid that a few dart hits will cause some of the joints to fail.

I am really liking the idea of a printed board if there is a v2.

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