Ouch
Published February 19, 2009
I'll save you guys from having to see another boring picture tonight. But I did have a few exciting things to mention. I added a power switch so that I way I dont have to connect the battery every time I want to turn it on and then disconnect it to turn it off. Well I added the switch and all seemed to be working properly.. until about 15 mins later I grabbed the battery to move it out of my way only to burn the **** out of my hand. It seems I over looked that, when the power switch was on, it was disconnecting the connection to ground.
Besides that I didnt get much done. I soldered some wires so I wont have to mess with braided wires or have to wrap wires to the prongs on the push button. Right now the program the MCU runs just says BUTTON NOT PRESSED when the push button is not being pressed, then when you press it, it says BUTTON PRESSED and lights up an LED.
Next programming session that I have I will work on making a simple game for this. Its kindof hard since im limited to a 2x24 Alphanumeric LCD, but I have an idea!
Nightnight