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Host box things

Finally went about the whole case thing. I don't know why exactly, but I'd been avoiding it. The requirements here are that there are 2 cases, one that holds a receiver board, and another that holds a 'cue' board of the 8 contacts. As mentioned in the v0.2 boards post, These are a lot smaller than...

Why the V0.1 Boards were terrible.

So the V0.1 boards had some problems. For one, on the cue boards, I forgot pulldown resistors for the continuity circuits into the input shift registers (what detects if a fuse is plugged in), and also forgot pulldown resistors to the firing signals coming out of...

Buckle up, this will be a long one!

The Struggle-

As part of this whole thing, I really wanted something fairly 'generic', yet good enough at what its supposed to with it's native hardware. Even this far in my building stuff career (professionally and personally), I still find the pull of 'do al...