Week 13, Networking and comunications
Ok, so this week was actually really scuffed due to lack of materials. When I started this week, I thought I would have access to a functioning arduino but as it turned out, I was not able to get it to work. I don't know if this is because I'm using a mac without usb ports or if it was due to the arduino itself, but whatever the reason, I wasn't able to use it so I had to use one of the dev boards i've made. That brings me to my next problem… I didn't have any female to female wires, the type of wires that I would have needed. Thus, I improvised.
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With that made, I crossed the Rx and Tx pins of my board and loaded a sending code onto one of them and a receiving code onto the other. both codes were made with the help of ChatGPT and a premade code provided by my professor
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Now the final reason this is scuffed is this
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What the receiving side was able to receive was absolute garbage, but it does mean that I was receiving something so I will take it given my circumstances. I wasn't actually able to get anything to work, I don't know what the cause for this was but I tried to fix it and nothing I did actually worked. With all that in mind, I definitely would have liked to get this working but I don't think I would have been able to with my current knowledge and accessible resources.