Diorama: Central Control In progress
The Central Control system co-ordinates the other parts of the diorama's electronic system.
Requirements
- Interpret and implement commands from the infra-red controller.
- Control and co-ordinate the model lighting, mechanical features and ambient lighting sub-system.
- Manage any programmed sequence of events on the diorama.
- Manage communication between the diorama’s different microcontrollers.
Progress
Progress to date is limited to beginning work on requirement #4, managing communication between microcontrolers. So far experiments have been conducted into the best method of enabling the infra-red command microcontroller to communicate with the central microcontroller.
Two experiments have been carried out to investigate the suitability of serial communication and the use of the I²C protocol. They are: