Art and Sound

So to our great dismay, after having worked to get our project up and running once again, it ended up being all for not.  The Logochip decided that it hated us and now just continuously outputs on all pins non-stop.  As sad as it is that non one but Joey, Chris and myself have really seen the project run its paces, it is a satisfying feeling to know that the Family has lived, twice.  

I have now added a picture page.  Since none of the picture are really specific you can use them as references for the kind of time we had trying to put this project together.  Many hours was spent trying to get the DVD players to work and I know Joey will also be posting pictures of all of his work making the TV stands.  Make sure to also check out Chris' blog as I said in my last post for the schematic of our circuit.  

All the new code has been added to the command section of my blog. This is the final code that we are going to use and has proven to work so far. Chris and myself saw it run 3 times flawlesly before we left so it should be effective. Pictures in general should also be posted soon and both Joey and Chris' blogs cover the other aspects of this project such as the building of the TV's and the layout of the circuit board used in the DVD players. 

My Commands Page 

http://tjkalthoff.wordpress.com/commands/

Joey's Blog 

http://cappy.wordpress.com/

Chris' Blog 

http://michaelangelo3.wordpress.com/

So we have a new mother TV.  We have two new DVD players that are both wired in and ready to run.  So we begin again.  This time we will tweak the code more to get the timing down better since we were unable to do so before I had to leave opening week.  

So after I had to unfortuneately leave early on the Thrusday before the show, I found out on the Tuesday of my return that the mother TV and both DVD players had been shorted out and no longer worked.  After numerous attempts to trace the problem it was determined that when Joey was using the glue gun he accidentally touched the tip of the gun to the motehr TV tube and the ground wires he was attaching.  I can only assume that everything was plugged in for this to be the case of our dilemna, essentially running 120 volts through all the circuits on the mother TV and DVD players.  

We will attempt to correct this issue.  I am in the process of acquiring a second DVD player since Joey already has one replacement.  He is also trying to find a new mother TV.