We finished up the screen today! I had given the rails (which weren't attached to the plexiglass) to Casey previously, and while moving them, some of the wires broke off. Wires were simply soldered to LEDs and left hanging. After moving and weakening the LED leads, some of them simply broke. Sadly they broke at the base of the LED and required the LEDs to be replaced. Today we replaced the broken LEDs. We designed it to allow easy access for this kind of incident, so it wasn't too much of a problem. We also taped down the wires in a way that allowed the wires to move without moving the LED leads.
To make sure everything worked, we tested each line of the parallel circuit separately.
Everything worked nicely! After making sure that each line worked individually, we wired up all the lines together, attached them to the plexiglass, and gave the whole thing a test. The LEDs were much brighter that I expected! We ran some touch programs with it, and they worked well. It was wonderful to see the whole thing working perfectly.
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