We now have to re-think the design. We will consider using a stand alone micro-controller to build our own custom circuit. The advantage is in avoiding the extra cost of buying a pre-packaged design. The butterfly has features that we will never use, and if one component goes bad, the whole thing is dead. Additionally, using separate components will allow for more flexibility incase our design requirements change.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Dead Butterfly
I killed our young AVR Butterfly while soldering more pins onto it. I don't see any shorts on my soldering job, so it could have died due to poor transportation conditions.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Miscellaneous Project Notes
List of Parts
Pin Headers, 0.1 inch
Some sort of IR emitting device
Some sort of IR detector
Useful Links
| AVR Flasher for OS X | http://www.ipnas.org/garnir/avr |
| OS X driver for our PL2303 USB-Serial adapter | http://sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303/ |
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