So I've had the V0.3 boards for a week, and as is evidenced by the fact that it has been a week and there is no "Everything is horrible" post, I would say they're doing okay. But they are far from perfect. Lets run down the mistakes made on V0.3, from most critical to least:

Receiver Problems

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So the V0.2 boards came in today. Less than about a week and a half total turnaround time... Not bad!! That's about the last time we can use "not bad" though because everything after this is bad...

Okay maybe not everything. Lets break down each system and see how I messed it up this time:

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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...

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...