Devlog 5

I’ve done a bit of soldering at this point, but I will say it is definitely not pretty. It is a rats nest of floating wires that probably won’t short or disconnect if I’m lucky, and all the power lines are held together with massive blobs of solder (or wires connecting the blobs since the blobs don’t stay together if they get too large)

In all my genius I also used solid core wire, which means they are more stiff, and more likely to break off from my weak solder points than flex, so I had to do a lot of reattachment.

Magically, it appears a lot of things are working, just not the shift register and its hard to say why. Perhaps I burned it and ruined the internal ICs, I’m not sure. I think I’ll disconnect it and reattach a singular button just to make sure everything else works (and I at least have some feasible product at the end of this).