Hacktastico!

This is going to be a shorter post than yesterday because not much progress was made.

Today was the first day of classes so I had a good chunk taken out of my normal hacking time.  In any case, I wasn’t able to get past some problems I’ve been having with the XBee chips and getting wireless communication to work. Despite that, I acquired (thanks to my ever-patient girlfriend) a hoodie to use as the base for the turn signal jacket and got some planning done for the laser mounts that I’ll have to machine either tomorrow or the next day. Additionally, I got the acrylic I’ll be using to turn the point from the laser pointers into a line that will be visible on the street.

In order to have something pretty (aka a picture) to post, here’s the test circuit I promised yesterday (click the picture to read the annotations better).

Test Circuit for turn signal code

If there’s interest in a schematic, I can post one. I think it’s pretty clear from the picture what connects where, but if you’d like a schematic, let me know in the comments. It’s a bit too late right now for me to draw one up because I’m sure I’ll make a mistake in my sleep-deprived state.

That’s all for today. Expect a breakthrough on wireless communication and some pictures of the jacket coming together (knock on wood) tomorrow.

Tags: bike, Build18, ECE, hardware hack