Josh’s tech art and sound blog

Today was more hectic than yesterday! I got to shift space this morning at around 9 in the morning. I did many different coding tricks to try and see why my chip was not working the way it should have been. I would set the chip and then see if the bit had been set. It would show me that it was high and I even checked it with a multimeter and it showed high. The problem was that even though the pins came out right, the motor that is going to be turning the dimmer switch is not working. I worked on it all morning and finally had to leave for a while for another class. When I got back to shift space, Tom was there and I asked him for help. It turns out that I had pushed the breadboard far enough through that it was not making contact with the logo chip. After he solved the problem, that part of the code worked. However, I still had a little bit of problem with my code since I had changed it so much. Also, since we had to move the breadboard in order to fix that problem, it knocked out some of the resistors in our digital voice recorder breadboard. It seems, that at this point fixing one problem only creates 3 other problems. By this time, it was getting to be show time. So, I threw together something at least "seems" like it works.