October 17, 2005

CD Tower Project, week 2

This flowchart shows the structure of the tool diagrammatically:

This method solves a few problems that I had been having earlier. Notably, I found that there began to be a significant lag when I had Applescript polling the PIC continuously. The program will run much faster this way, because Applescript really only does anything for the half-second or so after a track has finished playing. The downside to this scheme is that the computer doesn't really know the state of the CD tower until a track is finished playing. This means we're out of luck if we want the computer to be able to tell the tower to do something when a CD is inserted or removed. Zach and I plan to build in this functionality to the PIC, instead.

Posted October 17, 2005 02:27 PM. Categories: Group Projects , Week 6 | Permalink