Well, I have another good update regarding the Digital Dash project in that I have been able to test the timer. Finally
It works just as i have envisioned:
- Powers and stays on once the trigger is powered
- Power removed from trigger it starts the timer
- If power is reapplied to the trigger before the timer ends it resets ther timer again
- If power is NOT reapplied to the trigger the power supply turns off at the end of the timer
I will now put together all the components of the power supply to test its functionallity. Need to test again the timer, 5V output to the RPi, and the 3.3V sensing wire to the RPi (this will be used to trigger the shutdown process of the RPi). If/When all of these work together as planned I will be finished with the hardware aspect of the project, and can then move on to finalizing the software aspect.