This week I made a lot of fabrication progress. The pan mechanism is working and I got the arms spinning around, and also the head of the fixture is almost fully assembled. There are some things in the head that still need to happen, like angle grinding the lead screw down to length, adding some final fasteners, and figuring out a way to keep the gobo holder stagnant while the fixture moves. We also had our interim demo this week and we got some good feedback from all of our critiquers. Something that we definitely want to look into more that was a piece of feedback from Daniel our TA is adding thin padding around the focus motor to dampen the physical vibrations and hopefully reduce the noise. We are roughly on schedule, and as part of our interim demo we made an updated Gantt chart for the remainder of the semester. In the upcoming week, I intend to get the tilt mechanism working and ideally connect the head to the tilt mechanism, and IDEALLY connect the pan and tilt mechanisms and the head all together. If I don’t get all the systems together that would still be ok on our timeline. I also want to make more progress on the box for the base of the light, as this will be helpful for assembling the systems all together.
Pan video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rlitiAY5163TgosCQWV2yORz7cq7cf2m/view?usp=sharing
