Blogger Down Last Night:(

Last night, there was also another problem with blogger and we weren't able to blog last night, so here we are...so, our TTL isn't working- go figure. To solve this problem I thought that I would go to see Mr. Massad yesterday, but that didn't end up happening. At first our group thought we might've been lied to, and that the cards weren't encoded! But, thinking on a bigger scale, there could be so many reasons why this isn't working. Mana'o suggested that maybe the wires shouldn't have been soldered to pin 5 and 6, instead, pin 8 and 9. This is because on the data sheet, it says that the pins 8 and 9 are in use for readers with double tracks. I also thought that maybe the use of an apple USB was disrupting the PC's from transferring the data, but that's highly unlikely because USBs would all have to correspond to universal computers. I've emailed poor Andrei again to confirm that the cards/"software system" is not the problem, so we can focus on the reader itself. I plan on visiting the CAD lab during my lunch and free period, and maybe a little into study hall if I must. We need to find a solution to this obstacle!