Hey guys sorry for it being a couple days since the last devlog, I kinda forgot yesterday so this one is a combination of yesterday and today.

So yesterday I didn’t do much except I wired the SD card reader with a breadboard and got that started. I had to battle with it a lot for it to work as intended and that battle is far from over as I am still working on the file loading system.

Today I worked on fixing up my code for a while and finally got the SD card reader to what I would call a reasonable point, then I fixed an issue I was having with the opening of files off of the card. I’m still not completely sure what the fix was that made it start working all of a sudden, but my two main theories are that A) I was opening the file too early before the card reader could fully initialize or B) The breadboard wiring was just too unreliable to give a steady connection. Either way I started opening the file when it was actually needed instead of on startup and replaced the chunky breadboard wiring with soldered wires. One of the two things fixed the issue for what seems like permanently. I just hope I won’t have to revisit that part of the project later because I’m on a serious time crunch right now (this thing has to be done by Tuesday or else I am absolutely fried because I’m going on a 3 and a half week trip and my parents won’t let me bring my phone for some reason meaning if I don’t get my infinite book working in time it’s over for me).

Finally I also got both navigation buttons working as well as the reading light and light switch. All of those things are currently breadboard wired instead of soldered but that’ll get fixed when the code is looking a bit more solid. In terms of inputs I’ll still need a main power switch to keep the battery from draining as well as a home/select button. Theoretically after all that is working I can assemble and decorate this thing and the project will be done but unfortunately that’s easier said than done especially if I only have tomorrow to work but let’s all just pray for the best. See you guys tomorrow, hopefully for the last devlog of this project!