Alas I have not posted in a while and since then so much has happened. which is exactly why I haven't posted in a while. First off my debounce problem is solve. I bought some better buttons from www.sparkfun.com and they worked much better. Combining them with a library specifically for buttons and presto! the incrimenting works wonders. the buttons Radio Shack sells work but are very noisy. for those of you purchasing any I recommend a "D" flip flop. That will debounce the button and give you a solid yes or no.
Since then I have also rigged the DS1307 RTC (Real Time Clock) into my design and figured out how to get it to correctly log the time and bring it to the Microprocessor as a variable. It works very well at the moment. It is using the I2C 2 wire network and has an address of 0x68. I had to do quite a bit of reading before I new exactly what to do. A few online tutorials helped greatly.
The motor problem for our food dispenser was solved today by a quick trip to American Science and Surplus. The store has a very unusual but awesome inventory of all things for tinkerers. We found our water tank (an empty cleaned Cheetoes Tube) for all of forty cents and several motors for half the cost of a new one online. Please shop there. I cannot say enough about how valuable a store like that is in the area. I have no idea where they got the motor. It is used but works great for a prototype.
Things are coming together for this project which is a good thing because the other nightmare my Pattern Recognition project is going to keep me up several nights.
In other news I have officially broke onto the job market and am activly looking so if anyone....
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