Interfacing

Our 2nd motherboard (triple processor motherboard) has been sent in for manufacturing. Boy was the last hour an adrenelin rush...... but we got it in.... and now fingers crossed hoping that all connections were correctly wired.

We'll be testing signals from RC3's (control team) UARTs just to make sure they transmit and hopefully when our tri processor comes back, we are able to test if a proper transmit and receive can be done between the motherboard and the ATMEGA128 at the base board.

Apart from debugging, there hasn't been much done. Ohh!! David showed us some pretty cool soldering tricks. If a pin from your chip is broken, what would you do?? Panic...?? No.. all you need is a filer and some wires.... The filer to file the casing of the chip till you see the conductor connected to the pin that was broken and then solder a piece of wire on to it... and TaADDDDAAA... it's done.

We gotta start linking the Snappers together. So we'll be whacking in NFS(Network File System) and also Minicom(for debugging) into the Snappers ... somehow...

We'll get there!!!!!!!!!