Amber Horvath Spring 3

This was a hard week, boys and girls. Mostly due to the fact I was very busy with my research job as we had a paper deadline on Friday and basically had to spend every "free" hour working towards that deadline. This left minimal time to work on senior design, but fortunately I was able to make some notable progress. I met up with Jonathan from the EE's to discuss the issues with the SD card as I was at a loss as to what to do next to determine why that function wasn't working. We reworked the SPI function call but that unfortunately didn't help anything. Our next step is to try reworking our approach and seeing if we can read from a file and perhaps find some commonality between reading and writing where the software breaks to pin-point an exact issue. Our other option is dropping this stretch goal (since that's essentially what it is) and focusing our efforts on writing stable data storage to EEPROM. If we can't get this stuff working soon enough that's probably what we'll have to do. Meanwhile, we also need to start focusing our energy on programming the arm to move. That's a big one.

Next steps are to find out where EXACTLY this code is breaking. And also to implement the retract and move out parts for the deck plate holding the mechanical arm as that's part of my requirements I was assigned ("emergency retraction").

Problems are that this SD card just won't cooperate and I'm so tired of it.