In Touch
We have a title for our project, as well as a lot of the parts of it working. The xports are finally talking to each other through UDP (turns out it was not that difficult -- we just had to change the settings and make sure we weren't making mistakes). In the configuration settings each of the xports is set to "CC" connect mode (as opposed to D4) and the remote IP and port for each one is the IP and port of the other one. We are using port 10001 for one of our xports and 10002 for the other one. So now we can open two terminal windows, connect to each xport serially, type, and what we typed appears in the other xport's terminal window, jst like magic!
Last week we got the communication protocol part down. We incorporated into our code what our arduino should send once one of the IR sensors senses a touch (which means that its LED has to change color) as well as what it should do should it be sent something serially. Then we tested this through the Arduino window's serial monitor (we only had one xport at the time), and after tweaking our code a bit we were able to make our prototype respond to these messages.
We have sketched out the board on eagle, jut need to play around with the connections a bit because the circuit is somewhat complicated. After we're finished with that, hopefully we can go on to etch the boards and then do a ton of drilling and soldering...
all 32 LEDs that will make up one of the 2 screens
