[Gghc-discuss] Electronics coming today and working sessions

[Samantha Copeland]

Hi Jonathan

I am working more on the files to print on the acrylic today. If I get done
ill head to the fab lab this evening if not I'll stay here keep working and
see up tonight at open hours.

Sam

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Manton <jmanton at illinois.edu>wrote:

> The electronics for the prototype are arriving today (a day early).  I'm
> going to go to the fablab around 4:15-ish to make some breakout circuit
> boards so we can connect to the arduinos with ribbon cable (I have ribbon
> cable and connectors and headers).  I'd appreciate company/help from anyone
> that can show up.  I'll have my acrylic too, if anyone wants to work on the
> front panel/case design.
>
> I'll be adjourning to the makerspace whenever it works for everyone else to
> start putting the circuit together, and to sort of merge in with the
> Thursday open hours (are there Thursday open hours?).  There is plenty of
> work for multiple people - we could probably have 3 people working at the
> same time on getting the prototype together.
>
> Anyone who wants to work on this stuff send an email to the list saying
> when you are available and what type of stuff you want to work on.
>
> Hopefully we'll be able to start doing software on the actual hardware
> later tonight.  I'm pretty excited :-)
>
> As a side note - does anyone have any logarithmic potentiometers?  The
> value isn't as important (10K or 100K or whatever) as the fact that it is
> logarithmic.  We need 2, one for the microphone (to set gain) and one for
> the speaker (to control volume).  U of I EE stores didn't have any.  It
> isn't a big deal, we can always order some, but it would allow us to get the
> audio pieces working in the prototype.
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