04:17am Sept 17- Finished the enclosure, and [hopefully] all the troubleshooting for the controls. Not taking it apart again, it took long enough to squeeze it in there...I feel like I'm back in school pulling an all nighter to finish a project on time... which is pretty much what I'm doing, minus the school part.
I promise better pictures, and better writing, after I get some sleep...
Good night.
EDIT 00:43am Sept 18:
Four hours of sleep, then driving two hours to stay at a friend's house to make a movie for the weekend. I feel like I'm in college again... oh wait, I am.
Much progress tonight... figured out, in record time, how to get Processing to control the Arduino dimmer (and thus push my painstakingly constructed hardware controls into obsolescence, almost).
The manual controls will suffice for simple "breathing" effects loops, and they're key for self-contained Backpack Mode, but being able to control the finer aspects of the dimming cycle from Processing will really come in handy when we get into making the moon act like it's sick on the next shoot.
Figured out why the dimming has been so jerky- I've had it outputting a lot of debug data over Serial, which has been slowing down all the loops. So now that it's working, I don't need the debug data and now it's much smoother- italics used to emphasize smoooooothness.
The one issue I'm having (and it very well might be a software bug...) is that the new TIP31 transistor is not behaving the same as the old one... it seems like it goes from 0-100% brightness in the first 10 or so steps of the PWM (of 255 steps)-
MS Paint is probably the only thing I miss from my Windows days...So we have the batteries charged and are gearing up for Shoot Day 1 tomorrow... time for bed.
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