input devices: sonar distance

For this week's input devices I decided to work with the sonar distance board.

For the milling I took the traces and outline files from the repository.

While milling I made the very silly mistake of not pasting the board properly on the sacrificial layer.

So i had to mill it again.

For the soldering I had my pieces ready:

and was able to solder it without a problem.

For the programming even though I had pip installed I ran into a little trouble with avr. However one meeting with Zach and he was able to very simply expalin to me exatly what I didnt wrong, and why it didnt work the first time. Turns out that while I download the AVR complier, I did not extract it.

Once that was sorted out, Zach very clearly explained to me how to successfully programme:

  • 1. first rename the make file into makefile
  • 2. get into the correct folder by typinf cd and folder name
  • 3. since i am working with python type: python (filename) (usb port)

    • THATS IT!!!