Wednesday, 2 May 2007

False alarm

I convinced myself today that I could fix what was wrong. So I went to the lab and did some of the black art of hardware debugging. After a few hours I realised that it was the fuses on the microcontroller that wasn't properly set. Now the project is back in business again. I also checked the UART configuration and made a proper one (that I hope will work). Dizzey helped me with an op amp today. Read about the Operational Amplifier at wikipedia. It will be interesting to see if the op amp can do any magic so it is possible to connect headphones directly.. Hyarion came to the lab too and he insisted we should continue on the embedded emulator. The problem with it is that it only recieves a couple of bytes via the UART. If it is time for that tomorrow I will try to fix that problem. I am a little bit sceptic to the emulator because I think there will be difficult to solve the timing. Hopefully that is easily solved with timers.

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