Unfortunately, its been an unhappy busy week for me, major stuff up, by our ISP, which required me to do a lot of work. So I haven't really got anything done with TriClock. On the plus side though, WowWee has added TriBot support to the RoboRemote. Judging from the files, the reason the IR codes didn't work previously is because WowWee has extended the format to 24 bits. So it looks like the last hurdle before TriClock is finished is going to be a fairly small one.

Hopefully I will find some time this weekend to finish it up.

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.