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Date:
6/16/2012 12:27:12 AM
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This must be what hell is like
I've been working on a thingamajig prototype for a little while now, and had it working great on some solderless breadboards. Thought I'd spice it up a little for a presentation, so I figured I would package it up nice and neatly transferring all the guts to some project boards and stuff it in an enclosure. Everything started good. The main board was looking really tidy and slick, but realized I wasn't going to have room for all the things I needed, and this is when things started to suck. I had already planned to put some 7-segment displays on their own board, but I wasn't really expecting them to be SO GAY. Every company on the planet already figured out logical pinouts for these devices except the idiots radioshack (I know - my mistake, but I was impatient) sources their parts from. Then came all the wires. Started out quite clean, but as I added more switches and buttons it all went to shit. Now I had a whole mess of wires that were too short and stiff and needed to be extended, or they were too long to be able to move the boards around a bit. The picture actually kind of hides just how terrible it all is. But who cares if it works, right? Right.. But it doesn't. I uploaded the firmware hoping great things would happen like they had originally. I should have hoped harder. Now I have a box full of wires and components that don't do what they should, and I have a feeling that trying to fix it is going to be a nightmare. I'm an idiot. What I should have done in the first place was just stuff the completely functional solderless breadboard circuit in the box and simply attach all the buttons and switches to it. But since I scavenged a bunch of the parts and soldered them, I have to hope I can go out and find all the replacement parts I need it time. WTF was I thinking!? Someone slap me.
