Building Structure

Just a quick update on the weather room.

We're ending the final stage now, it's due next wednesday, and the final expo is on the 23rd. ( eek! )

We've got the mocap gloves all up and running, ( orange and blue LEDs ), They're quite neato. We've got a left and a right hand. Ive got to pick up some backup LEDs tommorrow incase they blow ( we're pushing more than the recommended power through them, so there's a chance they could die ... fingers crossed though, hey ? ). So as you can see, we've got a black rubberish glove, two sets of wires connecting to the battery pack concealed in the cuff, with one led attached to each finger. This is a WIP shot, But the gloves are constructed, and we're all done with those now. We've played with them and they're quite good at blinding you. The motion capture still needs to be tweaked for accuracy and distance. Kinda shitting myself about that part, but meh, s'all good.

We've Then got the structure. I dont know if I mentioned it before, but we're building in a stairwell ( it was the only place we could actually fit our structure and have enough roof space ). We moved the structure into place yesterday, and our two carpenters bolted it all together. It's sitting pretty now and looking quite strong and sturdy. As you can see from the photo there, there's a massive window behind it. Our next problem was blocking out that light. Bonnie found some great material for this, massive sheets of black plastic. Ugly as sin, but cheap and very effective ( one sheet, no light comes through - with no overlapping ). Unfortunately, when the window is 4.5 metres, it's a tad difficult to get up the top and attach it to the window ( one of our tutors tried, Jamie, hope those shorts are okay, the tape holding up ? )

And finally, we attached some more of the black plastic to the inside of the front part of the structure , to block out light from the outside in. We're encasing the entire structure in black curtain next, and attaching a projector ( rear projected ) Screen from the top rung of one wall to the top of hte other. it should give us a fairly large image projected onto a 'roof'. Fingers crossed though hey ?

Although we're all very stressed, it's good that we can still have fun doing such a long long LONG assignment