The home stretch

We are really close to finishing the project now, the MAC mini and touchscreen are working perfectly after uncountable hours of frustration, everything is being painted today, the program displayed text perfectly, the SMS function works, RSS feeds work. We spent a ridiculous amount of time over the past two weeks on the project, so it's good that it will soon finally be over. yay.

Picstravaganza

The barrel we never used.

Cutting

Welding

Electronics work(old)

More elctronics

Cutting metal

New Electronics

Finishing the frame

Paper prototyping of safety shield

Frame Welding.

Whiteboard prototyping

Bluetooth is shit + Engineerin'

After messing around with the bluetooth arduino for two days, and thinking i had completely destroyed it It decided to work perfectly. This week we have worked on the project every day. on monday we designed a mounting bracket+ axel and took the designs to the engineer to have it machined. We also discovered that a perspex safety shield would cost 350 bucks. Get fucked. Especially because we don't even know if there is a budget organised for this class, so a refund is still a "maybe". Tuesday and wednesday were spent by me going insane all day and night trying to get the arduino to work. Today it finally did.

However the new 8x8LED code wouldnt work, even after the progmem stuff to save ram. so it is currently running the old 5x3LED code. I had to change to another serial socket program too...no idea why. Fucking bluetooth.