Log#1

Date: 02/23Thursday – 02/24 Friday

• Set up the lab. 

1. Set up four moving lights(miniMAC) and projector.
2. Daisy chain all the lights.
3. Set the MODE == 4. Set the start address. (MODE 4 needs 10 addresses for each light. The first light starts at address 1, then the second light starts at 11, and so on.)
4. Learn how to control the light with assign address and value. 
5. Test the til and pan.
6. Test the color wheel
7. Try using the FFT data to control the color wheel.
8. Adjusting the projector and end up placing it on the floor to avoid the angle of the wall, just projecting on the flat surface.

• Issue
  1. When control the visual and lights together, the visual becomes slowly. 
  2. The til and pan of the fixtures behavior hard transition at the first point and then smooth and hard transition. 
  3. The miniMAC doesn’t have the color mixing function, can’t assign value to change the colors.
• Idea
  1. There has grid on the wall, maybe measure the size of grid and make something on each grid? Or just do the calculation based on the resolution of projector?
• Next
  1. Make a lighting control interface
  2. Make the interface for the whole system.