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This will be a running dialog (monologue may be more appropriate here) of my progress on the project. It will occur in reverse chronological order.

— r. d. 2010/03/30 21:12

• Looking into this: http://www.ikalogic.com/debouncing.php
  • Need to find the trigger on the end of the circuit. I'm sure there's a DIP that has 8 on chip. I hope…
    • Here it is: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=568-2753-5-ND @21:22
  • Need to buy more capacitors! :)

— r. d. 2010/03/30 20:50

• Project wiki is up
• Decided pin/hardware connections
• Re-looked up the LCD library on Arduino that uses 6 DIO pins instead of 7. Still undecided on whether saving one pin is worth it (as it stands now I have 5 open pins… all of which are PWM which may be why I'm saving them)
• Moving to analog temp sensors instead of serial. Should I need to expand, I may move to I2C.
• Decided AGAINST Sanguino for this project – will prototype the build using my Duemilanove and then deployment with the RBBB kit from moderndevice.com. Sanguino still kicks ass for the price.. still considering it even though it's complete OVERKILL.
• That's all for now… :)