Because we estimated that our ordered parts would arrive today, we took the liberty to go out to Frys and Action Electronics to buy all the necessary parts to be able to begin building the circuit board. Components bought today included a circuit board with mounting area, a bread board, a stepper motor (not one that we plan to use for the project--its step angle is too inaccurate for our purposes--but to use as a test case for us to experiment with), a DC voltage to attach to the circuit board, and soldering wire. The costs for today were about $60; added to the $40 for the components bought online, we have spent over $100 on this project already. And we have not yet ordered the stepper motors we need (out of stock until December 1st) so we are fast approaching our initial budget of $200.
We have also managed to hook up our NSLU to a router from one of our homes. With port forwarding active, we can now access the NSLU from any computer without dragging the entire NSLU with us wherever we went.
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