The Scrobble Box has evolved. Instead of a Raspberry Pi with a block of headers soldered on and a bunch of jumper wires connected to the headers on an Adafruit FeatherWing e-ink display, it now has a new Pi with no headers and a new regular Adafruit e-ink display, without all the hard-to-map-connectors featured on the FeatherWing. This simplified the wiring and gave me an opportunity to practice my soldering.
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I made an image of the last Pi and moved that over to the new one. Pleasingly and surprisingly when I rebooted, the screen displayed the "I am off" message from my code, so I know that all the solder points worked. They are a beginner's soldering attempt, but they worked. That was satisfying.
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Next I hooked up the love button, the KXLU switch, and the GUSH switch (which required a new addition to the code as well).
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And just like that she's back and scrobbling! Next will be some aesthetic updates, and wiring the third switch in the middle to control the power, so I don't have to open the box to turn off the batteries.
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