{"id":97,"date":"2012-09-04T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T03:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-07-14T16:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:26:25","slug":"i-dont-want-to-go-on-the-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want to Go on the Cart!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been a little slow of late, but finally making a tiny bit more progress. \u00a0Finally figured out an issue I was having with the LED driver chips, namely that I was running them on 5V source but giving them 3.3V signals. \u00a0That caused the serial communication to work sometimes, but not always. \u00a0After adjusting the source voltage down to the 3.3V rail, it started working properly with multiple chips. \u00a0Given that, I&#8217;ve ordered some PCBs to see how I can do on actually wiring everything up. \u00a0If this goes well, I&#8217;ll have to start looking at the actual board and control housings, and figure out how to connect them. \u00a0My initial plan was a simple Cat-5 connection, but I&#8217;ve started looking at some wireless communication stuff that&#8217;s intriguing. \u00a0It&#8217;d be quite nice to not have the controls tethered to the board itself, and would really free the thing up to be set up however works best. \u00a0Will keep looking into possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been a little slow of late, but finally making a tiny bit more progress. \u00a0Finally figured out an issue I was having with the LED driver chips, namely that I was running them on 5V source but giving them 3.3V signals. \u00a0That caused the serial communication to work sometimes, but not always. \u00a0After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}