Wednesday of this week was the last day of PComp, and the semester has come to a close. Chris, Eddie and I presented the PinholePainter camera, which is not yet in working order. We worked really hard to get to where we did, and a lot of the components of the project are working, but not the key image creation component.
We have decided to continue with the project into next semester. The steps we are planning/thinking of pursuing are:
- We need a few new multiplexers - the one on our board got fried yesterday
- Need to rewire the sensor (photocell) head. Our wiring needs to be in better order as we continue.
- Photocells v. Photodiodes - need to do some experiments
- Use a lense? If so, what kind - convex-convex?
- Flood a room with ambient type light / work with different lights and reflectors
- Resistors! We haven't come to agreement on base resistors yet, and they seem to make a big difference in the sensitivity of photocells.
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On the software side, we are interested in writing a new program that represents the additive nature of film a little bit. For the moment, though, we are trying to focus on getting any meaningful values in a light-proof environment.
We decided that we aren't far enough along to present in the show this weekend which was, of course, disappointing. We are taking the weekend off from the project to get a little perspective and rest. Going to continue talking about it next week.
The other projects that were presented in class this week and last were pretty amazing.
Will, Matt and Sunghun made a 3D visualization system:
3D
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Kacie and Tom's Morgen, the Networked alarm clock
Petra's Museum Talk
posted by Amanda @ 12/14/2007 11:59:00 PM,
