Presentation + Documentary

Our presentation definitely did not go as well as we hoped it would. The calibration done on the lights over the weekend had to be re-calibrated as the air conditioner in the room turned on, changing the electrostatic field. However, if we had more time, we would use motion sensors and lower decibel servo motors for this installation. 

We finished our documentation and video on time, however, we had technical difficulties with the video. We had all the footage and finished editing, but somehow when we rendered the video, the quality was not great. We had to re-do all the editing all over again, but after a sleepless night for Jonathan, we were able to pull it off. 

Final Preesntation

Over the past few days, we have been in the Green Screen Room as much as we can. We have been setting up, and all the lights have been hung up. However, during calibration, we realized that our sensors could not touch anything that was conductive, or had electricity running through it. We had to re-wire everything in order to have proper calibration. Even though we straightened everything out, we realized the electrostatic field in the Green Screen room fluxuates a lot. Any change in the environment would require us to re-calibrate the lights.

In order to see the shimmering effect on the floor, we had to purchase a white cloth to put on the floor. However, we could not find a big enough one, so we tiled 2 cloths.

If we had more time, we would switch to motion tracking sensors and lower decibel servo motors.

Further Improvements

Today, we decided to spray paint our lights. We purchased matte white spray paint, and painted all the lights. The effect was what we wanted. We wanted to have lights that were more concentrated without letting out too much light.

The servo motors are all placed into a self-made foam box, and ready to be hung up.

Final Project Update - Green Screen Room

Today, we finally had access to the Green Screen Room. We tested out our lights, but there are lots more to be done. We were able to silence our servo motor, but we have encountered more problems. The AC in the Green Screen Room is not clean. As a result, we have had dirty feedback, not allowing our lights to sense the way we want them to. We will have to further test our lights and calibrate them.

We were able to bring in four 2' x 4' plywood into the Green Screen Room and we hung them up on the ceiling, which were supported by the bars. The plywood is used for support for our Shimmering Lights. We did a trial run and it looks good, however, we still need to calibrate our sensors.

Shimmering Light Update

We began to test our prototype in the Green Screen Room. We tested out the lighting in the room and figured out how high we would want to hang our lights and how far apart.

We came up with a method to try to silence our servo motor. We surrounded the servo motor with foam and put it in a box.

We also began to test our pressure sensor mat. We are thinking of using two pieces of cardboard with foam inside, to make the pressure sensor.