DNA Lamp Final Post

Post date: May 20, 2018 7:27:58 PM

After restarting this project back up I fixed some soldering issues, made a material list, and after many weeks of trying, hopefully, I have fixed the bootloader issues. Fixing the soldering issues and making a material list was straightforward enough. Trying to get the bootloader to work for the Arduino took me ages to figure out. I switched the wiring up, changed breadboards, and tried to solve the sync error using the software, nothing was working. I was about to give up and just wire the DNA Lamp directly to the Arduino when I found a "life saving" video. In the video, to get around the sync error, the guy just switched the chip on the Arduino board to the one he was trying to bootload to and he loaded the program on that way. I attempted the same thing and I believed it may have worked, I need to test it still, but the software loaded with no error on to the chip. I have learned that to get around issues it might take some unconventional thinking and process to get it to work properly.

After deciding to just wire the DNA Lamp from the Arduino, I made the top lights. Then I quickly made the rest of the DNA Lamp. I tested the DNA Lamp, had to move some wires around on the Arduino board till it worked.