Week 12- The Final Lab

This week was the last week in the lab. The hardware and software had to be presented whether or not it was fully working. Luckily enough, I just had the software to complete. Having had a week to reflect on the software, I set about completing it to work.

I had a good idea what was wrong from last week, so I knew what I had to change, the difficulty was to change it correctly. But after a weeks reflection, I was quickly able to fix these errors. It's amazing what a short break can do for you. I soon had a fully working board and software. The software was now successfully reading in all the switches and it was reading in and decimally outputting and ADC value.

Finally it had all came together. I then went about adjusting the software, adding a simple button just to reset the ADC value on display, changing the colours and switches around, just to make the output more presentable. I also added a picture of the actual hardware. Attached below is a couple of screen shots of the software.

All in all, I was happy with the results. After 12 weeks I had fully working hardware and software. I demonstrated these to the supervisor and then handed them over. I now have to look forward to completing a report and presenting my work after the Easter break to the other students.



Screen shots of working software