⋆˚꩜｡Devlog Five: A couple of things for today!

Bugs are fixed! The program worked perfectly during the Spain-France game! :) For the final piece of software, I set a piece of code in my Pi which runs the program automatically when it boots.

While I was originally going to CAD and 3D print a ball, I realised that I did not have enough resources to complete the job and I also didn’t want to drag the project out longer by learning how to do CAD and finding a 3D printing place in my city. Thus, I did the obvious: I gutted a real rubber soccer ball and put my Pi into it! I secured the display using paper clips and filled the ball back with stuffing. The whole process took a lot shorter than I though; however, I had a mishap with Lapse (used it on my iPad for the first tiome) and completely did not realise that it was not recording for a good chunk of it…..

Overall, the ball feels… very homey and very “DIY”, but for my first hardware project I kind of like it! I didn’t expect myself to have an 100% polished project and am happy with what I have for now. Certainly there are improvements I’m going to make for the F1 and figure skater versions of this project!

SPAIN LOCK IN FOR FINALS SPAIN PLEASE