This week I focused on final preparation and controller fabrication. Ella delivered our final presentation, and beforehand we did a full dry run to make sure everything we needed to cover was included and flowed well. I worked on the controller by laser cutting the enclosure and soldering the components, although it still needs to be fully wired up. I also cleaned up parts of our motor integration code to make it more organized and reliable moving forward.
Based on the testing we have done so far, the individual subsystems are working well on their own. The focus mechanism functions properly in isolation, the controller accurately reads both analog and digital inputs, and those inputs are successfully sent to the main system to control brightness and color. We also tested the pan mechanism separately and it performed as expected. However, full system integration is still in progress, especially the tilt mechanism, which still needs to be connected and tested with the rest of the system. We also have not completed a full end to end system test yet. So far, no major design changes have been needed, just small improvements like refining the code. The next step is to fully integrate all components and verify that the entire system works together as intended.