Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Hardwiring the Hardware

Soldering 24 wires to each of the 4 stepper motor drivers is proving to be quite a messy job. We have decided to attach all the input connections that are never modified by our system onto a separate circuit board (as opposed to a bredboard) to prevent any confusion and for tidiness. This way, we will not make the mistake of connecting one of these connections to an output connection, where something could go haywire. Further, we have also attached labels to each of our output wires to make changes in wiring a tad easier. We would no longer have to search through a mess of wires to find the one wire we are looking for.

We have code to use to test the system with two stepper motors. To do this, we have switched to a C# compiler (as opposed to Java, C, and C++). Testing will begin shortly and a new update will be soon.

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