Today was all about Bop It! (again). I got some help to debug my crappy soldering and found that most of my ground connectors weren’t fully connected. The soldering is such a mess and despite my best efforts, I just kept building up more and more of a blob of solder. It’s ugly, but at least it’s working for now.
Once I was able to confirm that all the sensors worked, I temporarily taped them into the first box that I designed. This wasn’t a great box because the holes were designed a little bit in a slap dash manner. But this gave me the ability to see what size holes would would and confirm that I could fit everything into the box. Then I redesigned the box and included a sliding cover. I am currently in the process of printing the box (it will take another 2 hours!), so I’m looking forward to seeing what happens. This was a helpful tutorial for understanding how to design the sliding header.
Finally, I need to figure out a few final things now that some new parts have arrived:
Feeling slightly optimistic about the project, but also nervous! Getting power working and putting it all in the box is going to be sort of scary!