Things are finally starting to work. Some of the problems I have been having have to do with the prototype being different from the production board. I changed some things around, for no good reason and this has been causing me some issues. Not every thing was changed for no reason. Some thing were changed for a reason, and this is also giving me some issues.

One of the issues was that I was listening on Serial Port A, and the data was now being receieved on Serial Port D. This took a while to locate. I am still finding all the issues like that but I am happy with how it is going now. I know this all sounds really boring, and to a certain extent it is. Unfortunately it is what I have to work on right now.

IT WORKS!!! IT IS ALIVE!

I just got it to connect for the first time. This is a momentous event. It has taken a lot of work, and money and resources but it is now working. Unfortunately there are some hardware modifications that need to be done to put this into production. Mostly adding some wires, and a coupld of resistors costing under a cent. But it works!!!

Photo of the Day

This if from the tallest building in Melbourne on the 1999 trip when I also went to New Zealand. One of the hardest things about this trip was flying out of New Zealand really early, into Melbourne, and giving a lecture that night. It was fun though. I was staying right in the centre of melbourne which was cool too.

Apart from being the end of the trip, why is this photo in here… Well, a part time job around that time was to actually program those signs. It was fun, and gave me some experience with Windows Programming.

And finally this was in a foyer in an office building in Auckland. Totally impractical, but looks cool…