Here’s what happened ...
Unfortunately I was in Atlanta for work for 3 days of this week, so I didn’t have a chance to be too creative for this assignment.
I built new stereo cables.
For this week’s assignment I first converted each of the boards into Eagle because cad.py was causing my classmates so much trouble. Also, Eagle would ensure compatibility with other boards I had already designed (for future add-on functionality). I fabricated and populated one i0.16, one i0.15, and two i0.14 boards, and I programmed them with the corresponding code in either the "byte" or the "packet" section, making sure to change the char variable for the "byte" code from one i0.14 to the other, and swapping the source_address_byte_4 and destination_address_byte_4 for the "packet" code from one i0.14 to the other.
Didn’t have time to run a final test and make sure that everything worked, but I think it should check out just fine.