Brandon Marsh – NMP Jacket

With all the excitement and the highs and lows that have come up with this project it’s sort of easy to lose sight of the real goal here; to come away with a really fantastic project and have learned something by doing so. I have to thank Ira Nayman for pointing out to me that I was still learning and that these little road blocks and frustrations were all part of that, it’s really helped to alleviate some of the frustration of being unable to complete certain parts of my project on my own.

That being said! I have been working hard pretty much every day trying to get as much done as possible!

I’ve soldered my own circuit board and just have to fix a few wires on the cellphone before I can do a dry run test of the entire system! I picked up some speakers from Factory Direct, their prices are pretty good, but the store policies and customer service really sucks! Anyway those speakers were incredibly easy to disassemble and work pretty well for what I need! I also found some really cool buttons at Active the other day! Now I just gotta figure out how I am going to be able to manufacture certain parts.

That being said I ordered some Wonderflex on the advice of a Theater Tech friend of mine, hopefully this stuff is as good as everyone is raving about!

Stuck

Alright so after some testing and debugging almost everything is working. I had the swtich working… but now it is switching in response to main power source and not from the opto-isolator, I tried looking back at some of my old diagrams and circuit pictures and what I have looks right. So I am just wondering what is going on, maybe I should restart my circuit?