6/3 - 6/7

This week I got a lot of work done on my arcade machine project. Firstly, I finally completed putting the game onto my laptop that uses Linux. That is what I am going to be using for the arcade machine. It took me a while, mostly because there were some bugs that happened in the build of the game that didn't appear in the unity editor. A build of the game is a copy of the game project that can run on its own. The problem that I had was that there were some bugs that happened on the build of the game, but didn't happen on the editor version of the game that I could test stuff on. Since it also takes a while to make builds of the game, it took me extra long. This was because I would fix whatever I thought was causing the bug, make a new build of the game, and then the bug wouldn't be fixed. I repeated this process until I finally fixed the main bug that I wanted to fix. Unfortunately, there are still a few bugs in the game, but it doesn't break anything too much so I might just leave it in the game. Then, once I got the game build onto the laptop, I had to do some coding in the terminal to make the files executable, since I made the build of the game on a windows pc, and I needed to convert the files for it to work on Linux. The second picture seen below is of the Nate Ball game running on the laptop. Now, I am going to continue to work on the electronics. In particular, I am going to start making the buttons. To do this, I will be using a raspberry pi pico which will have code to communicate each button, so it basically can function the same way as a keyboard. The first picture seen below depicts the breadboard design I am going to be using to test out the coding that I will have to do.

One of my classmates, Joao Luis Paizante, made a similar project earlier in the year with a pi Pico. I have been asking him for help with what I am doing, since what he did is very similar to what I am trying to do. The last picture is of him, since I cite my sources.

Also, this week, I helped out Milo Austin, one of my classmates, with a project. It was a part for the fish feeder auger that I helped him with.

A picture of Big John: