11/13 - 11/16

I started the week by helping my classmate Anthony Cartolano work on his PCB. There was a problem with his design that, when transferred to the PCB Mill, would end up creating circles on the board instead of the oval shapes that were in the design in Fusion. No matter what we changed, the problem still continued. I then thought that it might be a problem with his Fusion so I opened the file on my computer and ran the DRC, which ended up working. After we cut the PCB on the mill, I helped him solder a few of the pins to get him started.

Once I was done helping him, I began work on my own project again, switching back to the PCB from the breadboard, but I ran into some problems. First off, the first and second sensor were always activated, meaning that they thought they were being interrupted for some reason. I fixed this by applying more solder to the pins they were plugged into and moving them closer together which got them to work properly. I also soldered four more pins onto the board to plug the display into, and at the end of the day everything was working. However when I resumed work on it the same problem I was having with the sensors before came back, except this time with the third and fourth sensors. I tried the same methods that had worked before, putting more solder on and adjusting the sensors' positions, but that didn't work. I'm going to try and fix that issue next week.