Re-Paddling
We decided it was best to redo the paddles all together, so we both went to Paragon at Union Square and bought 5 dollar paddles to break apart and Piezo buzzers at Radio Shack. The Rubber on the paddles were stripped open as well as the wood on the handles.
The Peizo buzzers were soldered, red is to power, blue is to analog and black is to ground. Then a hole was cut in the middle of the handles as shown in the pictures in order to place the wires that go from the peizo buzzer to the transmitter boards.
After making the hole, the Piezo Buzzer is placed under the rubber ever so carefully as the wires of the Piezo buzzers are very very sensitive and glued with the gorrila glue. The new buzzered paddles are clamped down and left to dry overnight.
The reciever box was re-designed to be more accessible and to look more prefessional and the transcievers are now placed in a little pouch.
I have to say I was glad we redid the paddles because it gave me a chance to see how the paddles actually worked and what was really used to get data from the paddles to the pic chip. Speaking of pic chips, the pic chips for the transmitter boards were changed from the larger 18F452 to the smaller 18F252 which has 28 pins. It was best to use a smaller Pic chips since we were using a smaller breadboard and we needed more space on the board to fit everything together.
Below are few pictures of our preparations:
