On Thursday, I decided that the Arduino shield would be better, as we could directly attach it to our Arduino board. I have finished soldering the components to attach it to the board, but need to add our isolation circuit. Unfortunately, I have trouble using my dad's soldering iron with our project. I may have to finish this in the last class.
For now, I am trying to use a different program to make a schematics for our isolation circuit. Tiny cad does not work wtih mac, but I found an alternative called EAGLE (link below). Not sure if this is close enough to TinyCad, but it looks very profesional.
Schedule before presentations:
Before finals: Work on presentation board and paper
Tuesday 17: Finish up soldering and assembly with Xavier
Thursday 19: Presentation
Links and stuff:
EAGLE tutorial I used
http://aaroneiche.com/2010/06/24/a-beginners-guide-to-making-an-arduino-shield-pcb/