Saturday, January 27, 2007
First taste
We got the board hooked up and running. Everything worked great until we got to the IR sensor, which is definately finicky. We've gotten it to trigger the debugger (and Yelena swears she saw the Flexinol wire move), but not reliably. We're going to try again Monday night...
A few small changes - we found a way to plug the board directly into the back of the laptop, by removing the screws that would normally hold the plug on (pictures to follow). We also cut our groove too wide, so we used a piece of piano wire to hold the other end of the Flexinol, with a dogleg out forthe alligator clip.
Not that anybody else cares about this, but I found a BASIC compiller/tokenizer for Linux (the links are on the Parallax website). Haven't tried it.
A few small changes - we found a way to plug the board directly into the back of the laptop, by removing the screws that would normally hold the plug on (pictures to follow). We also cut our groove too wide, so we used a piece of piano wire to hold the other end of the Flexinol, with a dogleg out forthe alligator clip.
Not that anybody else cares about this, but I found a BASIC compiller/tokenizer for Linux (the links are on the Parallax website). Haven't tried it.
# posted by Severn Clay : 1:40 PM
