Today has been quite a day. Makana was informed that our TTL reader had finally arrived! YAY!- Except, that means we would have to scurry down to Mr. Massad in hopes that we would have our final project implemented by the end of the day. Well, mission failed. Being that our entire group (except for one) are all in the same homeroom, we used our time, including lunch, finding information about how we would complete our magstripe reader. With the help of Mr. Massad, we were able to finish soldering on the CAT 5 cable to the Magnetic Card Reader. Thanks to Google, we were able to attain useful information about the schematics of the reader, helping us to figure which wire needed to be place in which pin. The data sheet led us to believe we should connect our wires to Pin 1, 2, 5, and 6. After testing the reader, and the cards being swiped, nothing happened! We were so bummed and upset because we spent two hours with Mr. Massad working on our reader. Ultimately, things have finally caught up to us. All of our waiting has resulted in this race to the finish. There are soooo many things that could be wrong, so we must find the solution to this fast. The problem might be within our soldering, should we have soldered to the Pin 8 and 9? Is the USB connected correctly/or even working? Do the cards truly have information on them?....The list goes on. But I think that with much collaboration from my group members and other sources, this could really work. We just need to move faster and accurately.
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