circuit diagram general thoughts

This is how the current proposed circuit is. just add reed switches. Tomorrows the first test at sticking all the elements together. after that we need to get permission for a space and do the coding, and present in 1 and a half weeks. which should be an attainable target.

The Arduino code will be checking for TXT messages. controlling the camera (auto focus and shutter)to take the picture and making sure the lighting doesn't go into standby by pinging it infrequently (the time-out on the receivers is 1 hour).

Once a picture is taken by the camera it gets transferred via USB, the camera will be shooting tethered using eos utility (just due to how canon doesn't let the card mound as a disk.) which will dump the photo into a folder. which will be trawled by our UI program which will run on the laptop. and outputted to the screen.

The use of cat5 wiring was chosen due to its fairly standard and gives us 8 lanes to use, (usb taking four, one for camera trigger, one for auto focus, one for radio trigger maintenance , and a shared  ground). a completely wireless system is technically possible but the two compact methods are financially out of reach for this project (the wifi grip for 5dmkii) or restricted due to non ce certification (eye-fi). and would be only useful if we scaled the project further later on adding more cameras.

We have gone for a slight fundamental shift instead of having a table we are focusing back to a more communal screen. this allows for a more exhibitionist vibe, and encourages a narcissistic focus. cos hell people go out to be seen and to see. if they didn't they would just be sitting at home. it would be cool to document the results through flickr/facebook/web2.0visualADDorgyofthemoment, but this depends on the feel of the place and the managements willingness.