Ups and downs

Good news: We had a problem with our Arduino since it did not have enough memory to recieve data from two ultrasonic sensors so we had to trick it in to taking data from both our sensor but still treating it like it is only one sensor.

Bad news: With this problem out of our way we managed to create another problem, we broke one of our sensors. We have ordered a new one (and by that our budget is about three times what the school was able to give us) and the last bits of code had to be written both in a “Dammit, we don’t have a sensor”- and a “Phew, we have a new sensor”-way so if the package with our sensor is delayed we can use the existing code and still show a some what functional product.

And as I did mention, the coding is complete. Tomorrow we will be documenting our process, comment the coding and publish it here for all of you to play with. We will also share our thoughts behind the interface pattern and how you interact with the ultra sonic sensors but most interesting the custom Firmata and multiple sensor hack.

Stay tuned!

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