Good Things

The following things are good:

· My board works, sending and receiving data. The problem was some stupidness, easily corrected on the breadboard.
· Tobi is, thus far, being a joy to have around. She likes playing both with her reflection in the doorwall and a Kong.
· Celebratory Kentucky Breakfast Stout
· The circuit to keep things from being fried of current is hooked up backwards works great. The FET only causes a 0.010V (measured) loss.

Tomorrow I will add the LEDs which indicate the activity of each line and be sure they work. I’ll also incorporate the current reversal bits to see how it all plays together. Then I’ll try sending large quantities of data through at high speeds (115,200), possibly even across a lengthy run of CAT5 in a noisy environment. I’ve already done short bursts of characters, but I’ll try sending 10s of MBs of files or something.

If that all works, I will begin designing the final PCB over the weekend. Yay!