And the board is finally done!!

Well it has only taken me close to 3 weeks but I have finally completely hooked up my board. It only took a severe lack of sleep to give me the dogged determination to get it finished today. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would but personally I think that might have been the lack of sleep. My board was already made up but I hadn’t added any holes for the wires to pass through so they were hidden from view. So the first task was to have fun with a power drill which probably wasn’t the most sensible thing but I still have all 10 fingers! When making the board I had already planned the exact positioning for each of the pads to make sure there was a even gap between them all. I realised hooking it up was going to be incredibly difficult unless I attached the pads to the board I figured the best way to do that was double sided sticky tape so I could remove them slightly easier if needed. Afte rthat it was the long and rather arduous task of stripping cutting and joining together lots of different wires. Roughly 3-4 hours later I ended up with a full functioning pressure pad board.
Also when testing it I realised that using the term Keypress wasn’t quite right for my piece because when someone stood on one of the pads for a prolonged period of time it cycled through all the images incredibly quickly. I needed to alter it to KeyReleased instead so when someone steps off of it the image changes.
A few images of the carnage I left behind after:

June 11th, 2008 - Posted in Double Project | | 0 Comments

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