This weekend Nery and I redrilled the holes so that the LEDs could fit better. We also sanded down the sides of the pexi-glass so that it could get ready to get painted. I also desautered the LEDs so that Nery could make the LED sets look a little better.
Jose G
Monday, February 16, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Pics :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spideykonfusion/sets/72157613527780092/
There is the set for todays work, including pictures and videos :)
-Nery
There is the set for todays work, including pictures and videos :)
-Nery
The Art of Messing Up
Today we tried to apply the silicon rubber to the plexiglass and we messed up. NOT A LOT, sort of speak, just enough to be able to redo it again. Which we are trying to get done, but Nery is refusing, Jose G is refusing, Jorge is refusing, and me, well, I'm refusing too. No one wants get their hands dirty with the silicon rubber, but we better do it before Aaron gets home..........
Jose G says we should wait until Aaron gets here, but I think that would be a bad idea, given that we should have finished it many hours ago. Aaron, if you're reading this, hopefully you don't get to see the pictures because, well, they're not pleasant lol. No worries, the project is going to look nice and dandy! woot woot
So, what comes after this??
We're couple steps from finishing the camera. Jose G finished writing the code in Java that will interpret the mouse events. I'll incorporate that code into the GUI.
Jorge is working to finalize the algorithm that will be flashed into the camera, and once that is done, we'll begin testing the communication between the camera, GUI, and even mouse events.
Time to see whose going to finally clean the plexiglass! (Not me of course)
Jose Rincon
Jose G says we should wait until Aaron gets here, but I think that would be a bad idea, given that we should have finished it many hours ago. Aaron, if you're reading this, hopefully you don't get to see the pictures because, well, they're not pleasant lol. No worries, the project is going to look nice and dandy! woot woot
So, what comes after this??
We're couple steps from finishing the camera. Jose G finished writing the code in Java that will interpret the mouse events. I'll incorporate that code into the GUI.
Jorge is working to finalize the algorithm that will be flashed into the camera, and once that is done, we'll begin testing the communication between the camera, GUI, and even mouse events.
Time to see whose going to finally clean the plexiglass! (Not me of course)
Jose Rincon
Sniff Sniff
Today we met up at my house to spray the silicon/toluene mixture on the plexiglass. We bought the empty paint can, paint filters, caulk, toluene, and mixing stick. The first batch of the mixture was contaminated, but we still used it to practice spraying using the air compressor and paint spray gun. We proceeded to put the LED array back in and test how it looked now with the silicon (even if it wasn't done right, just to see how well it amplified it). We used less film paper this time on the camera lens and we could see the blob a little better, but because we used less film paper so this could possibly add more noise.
Things to get done today:
- finish spraying the plexiglass correctly
- test with actual camera were using
Things to get done end of this week:
- test camera with tracking algorithm and mouse movements
- start building cabinet.
I'll be posting pictures and video in a bit :)
Nery
Things to get done today:
- finish spraying the plexiglass correctly
- test with actual camera were using
Things to get done end of this week:
- test camera with tracking algorithm and mouse movements
- start building cabinet.
I'll be posting pictures and video in a bit :)
Nery
Monday, January 26, 2009
Soldering
I wasn't able to make it to Saturdays meeting, but Sunday I helped Josie (Jose G) drill the rest of the holes in the plexiglass. I held the plexiglass and made sure we didn't drill too deep, Josie had a problem with that a few times. Luckily he put it straight in and didnt jiggle it so it wouldn't crack.
Then Josie and I put in the IR LEDs facing the same way and bent the leads so I could solder them all into groups of 7 (and one group of 5). From there we soldered each of the positive leads to each other and then each of the negative leads to each other, with one wire coming from each lead to make it easier to connect the power-source. As Juancho (Jose R.) said in his post, we need a power source with more current. When we tested it with the 12V 300mA power source it would blink (stay on for ~.5s and be off for ~1s), leading us to conclude that we needed more current from the powersource. We tested individual groups and they all worked on their own.
The next steps are to get all of the groups working with a new power -source, get the silicon and other stuff for the plexiglass, and do some more testing with seeing how a finger touch shows up on the plexiglass with the various layers on it.
Nery
Then Josie and I put in the IR LEDs facing the same way and bent the leads so I could solder them all into groups of 7 (and one group of 5). From there we soldered each of the positive leads to each other and then each of the negative leads to each other, with one wire coming from each lead to make it easier to connect the power-source. As Juancho (Jose R.) said in his post, we need a power source with more current. When we tested it with the 12V 300mA power source it would blink (stay on for ~.5s and be off for ~1s), leading us to conclude that we needed more current from the powersource. We tested individual groups and they all worked on their own.
The next steps are to get all of the groups working with a new power -source, get the silicon and other stuff for the plexiglass, and do some more testing with seeing how a finger touch shows up on the plexiglass with the various layers on it.
Nery
What a short weekend
So, many things happened during the weekend.
We met twice, one on saturday and once on Sunday.
We tried really had to meet on-time, but unfortunately, the only one with a correct, up-to-date clock was Jose G!!
Jose G and Aaron drilled nearly half of the holes on Saturday( nearly half because Aaron cracked one so that one doesn't count :-) )
This weekend I was so focused on getting our GUI to work, that when it was time to eat, I didn't notice the difference between a philly cheese steak and a chicken and bacon sandwich, the guys at Dominos switched them, I went based on the label.....only to find out two bites later that I was actually eating the chicken one instead of the philly cheese....Jose G wasn't too happy about that.
Besides the cracking and misidentified sandwich, everything went well. Display is soldered with all the LEDs and resistors. We plugged it in with a 12V 300mA power source, but the display requires 1000mA minimum so we couln't keep it on for a long time. Tomorrow or possibly later on today, we might be able to borrow a bigger power source from our faculty adviser.
Week 4 is almost gone!!!!!!!!!
Jose R
ps: if I chance today, I'll upload some pictures
pss: if I have even more time, I'll upload some video we took
psss: jk
We met twice, one on saturday and once on Sunday.
We tried really had to meet on-time, but unfortunately, the only one with a correct, up-to-date clock was Jose G!!
Jose G and Aaron drilled nearly half of the holes on Saturday( nearly half because Aaron cracked one so that one doesn't count :-) )
This weekend I was so focused on getting our GUI to work, that when it was time to eat, I didn't notice the difference between a philly cheese steak and a chicken and bacon sandwich, the guys at Dominos switched them, I went based on the label.....only to find out two bites later that I was actually eating the chicken one instead of the philly cheese....Jose G wasn't too happy about that.
Besides the cracking and misidentified sandwich, everything went well. Display is soldered with all the LEDs and resistors. We plugged it in with a 12V 300mA power source, but the display requires 1000mA minimum so we couln't keep it on for a long time. Tomorrow or possibly later on today, we might be able to borrow a bigger power source from our faculty adviser.
Week 4 is almost gone!!!!!!!!!
Jose R
ps: if I chance today, I'll upload some pictures
pss: if I have even more time, I'll upload some video we took
psss: jk
Plexiglass
This weekend I met up with the group to drill the holes into the Plexiglass, so that we could put in the LEDs. We split up the work so that half of the holes were drilled Saturday and the other half on Sunday. On Saturday I was in charge in making sure we didn't drill too deep and on Sunday I did the drilling.
Jose G.
Jose G.
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