11/27 - 11/30

This week I continued work on my jump meter. I started off by printing out a cardboard model to test the sensors in. This model contains 6 holes on each side to fit sensors into. One side of the model is longer than the other to model the final model, and there is a space to put a counterweight on in order to balance it out. This model isn't as effective as I hoped it would be because it's made of cardboard, which bends easily when stress is applied. Because of this, I've just kept it on its side so the sensors are all across from each other. Despite that drawback, I had everything working with 5 sensors on the model, but when I tried to resume working on it, it stopped working. The initial problem was that the solder on the SCL pin on the PCB came lose, which I fixed by putting more solder on and hot gluing the bottom to make sure it wouldn't come lose again. The problem still persisted though, so i switched back to my breadboard model to test it, which still didn't work. I tried different amounts of sensors, different pins, and different spots in the model, but nothing worked.