Spring semester is over, thanks be. Overall I liked the classes I took, but at times I was disappointed in my performance in some tests and on some projects. I hope I get a full 100 on my final project in digital design, and an A in the class. I did a lot of hard work on it. However, I also thought I did work hard on the previous project and I only got a 90. I think this one is better, however.
The project was a system to time and send signals for a sailboat race. The time would be displayed on three LED displays and the user could add from one to nine fleets, start them, postpone, general recall, etc... I designed it doing rolling starts, that is, no pause between fleets - the starting signal for fleet one is the warning signal for fleet 2.
Here's the file I turned in. It's only a 268K PDF. If you find it interesting, let me know at rhunkins-at-ev1-dot-net.
Of course, I know there are already systems like this one out there and I expect they are probably more versatile and better than this one. But the point of this exercise was academic. I know could build this thing for real if I had the inclination, but I still think it needs some more work.
Posted by Bob at May 6, 2005 09:20 AM