Almost there

This week, the last week before the deadline, we put all other projects aside as we attempted to finish our prototype. We’ve spent a lot of time in the workshop, making the physical parts of our installation, such as the “table” and the cubes. We discussed what materials to use and what techniques to adopt so as to achieve our envisioned result. For example, under the slider, we have acrylic plates that we wanted the lights to shine through in a flush motion. After testing them we discovered that they wouldn’t work such as they were, since you could see the individual leds underneath. We placed different materials between the acrylic and the leds to try and achieve the even light that we wanted and ended up being pretty satisfied with the light when we placed white paper sheets between.

                     

All the sound files have been inserted into the code and our sorting system is up and running. The code for the leds are in progress. We have yet to decide exactly how the lights will work when they are on “standby” and when the cubes are inserted into the sliders. Additionally, we still need to figure out how to establish three serial connections. As of now we only have two. Furthermore, we have been polishing are existing code, so as to ensure that everything works on the day of the presentation.  

We also started on our video, and have filmed approximately half of the footage that we need. We are currently watching lots of video tutorials on how to use Premiere Pro CC, Adobe’s application for video and film editing, which we are thinking of using. We’ve had some issues with the camera’s microphone and are unsure if the sounds we wanted to be in the footage were recorded, but I’m positive that Premiere Pro CC can help us, alongside Audition CC, Adobe’s application for recording, editing and mixing audio.

This week has been intense, but not unpleasant. We’re excited to see our project, hopefully, up and running very soon.