Testing Mounting Solutions
As we finish tweaking our programming, we’ve been testing options for mounting our sensors. After first experimenting with a plexiglass mount, we moved on to velcro (with a temporary lego and K’nex mount). That was too difficult to adjust, so we finally mounted the boards on rails. We’ve ordered sliding racks to mount the rails on for easy adjustment in the future.
Moving Towards a Finalized Design
Today was dedicated to getting a working prototype of the guitar in its nearly final form. Since we have redesigned the control board, we modified the original design by cutting connections and jumpering pins to get it working with the programming. This is only temporary for testing purposes. All of the guitar connections were soldered so that so we could test…it’s still a mess right now, but that’s because we don’t want to cut the wires down until everything is completely finalized. The track that the sensors will mount on should be done tomorrow, we just need to get some clear adhesive for the plexiglass.
Following are some pictures from today:
More PCB modding, Prepping the Sensor Track
As yesterday, we continued modding the control PCBs to work with our current programming. In addition to that, we finally started routing a path for our sensing circuits. They will sit on a plexiglass base and be able to slide horizontally to accomidate to differently sized televisions.
Pictures from today:
