Week 3 Blog: Quick Progress Update

I don’t have a whole lot that I can show for this week, hence why this blog post is short. I started off this week by building a circuit that can take the output from the decoder (Which I got working last week) and manipulate it to control individual notes. While I have this circuit mostly working, I cannot show it off properly due to some problems with one of the microchips I used. I am working on a workaround, however I was not able to get it done in time for this blog post, so I will show this circuit working next week. I also hope to start putting some of these circuits on printed circuit boards to start moving towards a final product. I talked to one of my father’s colleagues who works with circuit boards and circuit board design and he gave me some tips on what software I should use and how I should go about getting these boards manufactured. Hopefully I will have this mostly done by the end of next week so that way my wiring can stop looking like some very colorful spaghetti. (See last weeks images)