Week one (31/01/24)
Assembled the wac a mole board and the rig to test it.
Extended component legs of LEDs and Piezoelectric sensors
by soldering wires onto them.
Mounted LEDs and piezos, using hot glue for LEDs and tape to
attach the sensors.
Tested LEDs to ensure that they worked correctly.
Tested piezoelectric sensors using a 4-channel oscilloscope
and found that they would be useable for detecting the approximate position of
where the hammer hits the wac a mole using the maximum amplitude of the
waveform with readings occasionally of over 5V from the sensors, though
typically the peak voltage measurements were around 1 Volt.
These results confirmed that amplifiers would not be
required for the circuit, instead voltage divider circuits would be needed
since the ADCs in the Pico have a maximum voltage of 3.3 Volts.
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