[757labs] Today. Entrapment. Freeplay. Shmoocon. Oh my.

[ethan at 757.org]

Today:
  Hit home, get power controllers if they arrived, get stuff to ship off 
for parents. I'll grab laser diodes, the raceway clamps I found (yay), and 
the C64 to PC interface. TRS-80, Amiga, and such if they are there. And 
the tuner thing to hook old computer to vga. Also tripod.

  Hit harborfreight, get handy hands thing for soldering (I'll get 2 of 
them for lab), get pipe clamps for entrapment.

  Hit lowes. Get pipe for entrapment. And L brackets.

  Hit shipping place to mail parents stuff.

  Hit radio shack (maybe before) to get parts for sio2pc.

  Hit lab. Atari and C64 are already there. Begin work on entrapment 
physical setup.

  Tomorrow I'm going to hit Cain Electronics and hope to find some 74LS165 
parallel in shift registers. I think these are what we will use to read 
the photoscells. I got the arduino reading the jank.

To do:

  Try to make TRS-80 model 4, Kaypro II and Osbourne Executive boot 
floppies. Need to install MSDOS on a machine and some utils. Is helpful if 
I can hook this to a PC to copy over shit, or dual boot into Windows.

  Need to setup both laptops, one for Atari stuff and oen for Commodore 
stuff. For freeplay.

   Need to work on entrapment posts and stuff, get that moving a bit. After 
thinking last night, we got it. Basically 3 or 4 tripods will hold 
vertical poles that have laser diodes and possibly sensors. Then smaller 
ones near the wall to help provide more coverage. One arduino should rule 
it all.

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