pre-presenting (0.8)

We approached businesses in Vulcan lane, ranging from well presented restaurants, to a cafe a story above. the first was going moderately well till we hit the "and how does it benefit us?" line. restaurants rely on creating an atmosphere a false ambiance to entice customers, and we were trying to insert a unknown variable into their meticulously maintained façade, potentially nullifying their aura of a traditional restaurant rupturing the perception of their customers, basically they would deluge into a overpriced McDonalds with fancy seating.

In the end we managed to get permission to use a quiet wee building across the road from O'roke hall, tall and thin with 3 layers with large windows visible. One of the earliest brainstorms from before Zak and I paired up was to light up windows sequentially. Coincidently we have flashes that had to be unused in the previous pitches due to trying to conform better to the subdued nature of the location. with this location we didn't have any brand recognition to the general public to worry about. Its not a shop front. there's a degree of freedom to go a bit move verbose. this could also gain attention to our traditional screen. we spent the majority of Wednesday setting up the wiring for lighting. and obtaining switches nowhere in auckland seems to currently have 5v reed switches so we had to use the {forgot name its late atm} switches instead.

This involved more soldering, we have used nearly 3 meters of heat shrink for insulation of our extensive wiring, after starting of the project semi cautious that I'd screw something up during the soldering, its now become an autopilot action.


The system was built to be modular audio jacks were used  for geneeral connections cat5 for long extendable joins these common conectors are useful since they are easy to source and you can easily assemble/dissasembleehole parts of the circuit for transport etc. and in the case of the camera remote port it turns a propietry cable into a more accessable format (sterio 3.5mm in this case)


The Arduino was a a key element of the project it does all the heavy lifting so to speak chicking input and controlling triggerin in sequence
the majority of parts are mounted inside a pelican case a very large main one to hold a 17 inch laptop arduino phone and pcb's with reed switches on them. the other smaller pelican case had a hole drilled in the front to allow the mounting of a camera with lens protruding. and the little pressure equalising bung removed.
We widened the hole by manualy drilling (twisting like a one rpm drill, we resorted to this method due to the desired drill bit was too big for the drills. it worked suprisingly effective but it left small surface cuts on my thumb.
the benifit of using cases for the capture end was this,  under our original concept it involved inserting into the middle of a space it needed to be safe and secure from damage and stealing.