Although things have been going on, there's not really a lot to talk about, or more importantly, show. So I thought I would give a basic schematic for how the display is hooked up. The display consists of 4 KingBright TC40-11EWA modules.

Before I can finish closing up the torso, I need to deal with all the wiring. Basically, these wires need to be shortened, and half of them need to be connected to the other half. Most of the wiring is related to the old wiring harness, but I had to add a few things.

Since the mounting point I create for Tri-Bot's torso doesn't have the stops that the old mount had (mine relies on pure friction to hold position), the old stops need to be removed. Fortunately, the pins holding the stops in place slip out with only a minimal amount of force. The small rubber piece of unknown function is also gone, I'm using that hole in the shell to run the wiring through.

Well I finally got around to write the code for the clock. Its working pretty well, for anyone who is writing code for an AVR micro-controller I cannot recommend VMLab highly enough, it is a great shame that it is no longer being actively maintained.

Picking up from where I left off the other day. Time to reassemble the shoulder joint and actually test how well it works.

I added some simple cardboard spaces in between the bottom plate and the plastic arm, this is to make sure there is no undue pressure on the ends of the heads, or the wiring. The modified shoulder worked pretty well, its slightly stiffer than the unmodified shoulder joint, but that is to be expected.