Iceplate

Basic Improvements

We replaced the paper and the mirror with our new equipment, and the result were as expected. The image got clearer and the green edge got thinner. Though this tiny adjustment was a major improvement, the image still wasn't as clear as we had hoped, and the green edge was still there. Furthermore it still wasn't possible to fully straighten the paper, since we still used the acrylic plate as table, and the bubbles in the paper corrupted the image.

While these issues were in fact only minor imperfections, the mirror stand was quite a problem. Due to the unstable cardboard structure we would never be able to have the excact same angle when testing, and it was too easy to move the stand by accident.
The problem lead to a childish, but efficient solution, and we build an entirely new stand made out of LEGO. The stand was mounted on a big plate, and a turnbutton gave us the possibility to increase or decrease the angle in tiny steps. This gave us a much more precise setup, and we were able to have the same offset everytime we made tests.
On the same plate we made a slot for the projector, in order to be able to place it in the same place every time.

Even though our prototype still looked like an unfinished model, it had surely been improved, and the fact that we were able to use nearly the same setup for all our tests, gave us a certain advantage.
Due to these new possibilities we went on to test the camera. Of course we allready had done some tests on the camera, but not nearly enough to have a clear idea on how to use it in regards to our project.

posted by Milla @ 11:35