There is a few changes made to the interior part of our equipment. For a more relevant and meaningful use of time based visualisation we have changed the ice to ice cream as it relates the use of using an ice cream trolley and can be conceptualised as a source of energy.
We have found a source of heat using a high powered lamp light to heat up the ice cream giving us a chance to use our original idea and keep with a varying element. Unfortunately the only way to keep the lamp high powered is using a car battery which is too powerful for the transistor connecting to the arduino board. So we are looking at possible ways to create our own dimmer switch or find one within the city to be able to change the amount of power sent to the lamp from the car battery.
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| The umbrella size compared to the trolley |
Since the presentation was coming up in a day we wanted to prepare for our presentation and show our work in a contextual manner. It did not look as if we were to have time for a test run recorded before Friday and instead will just record a visionary piece of ice cream melting from the lamp to give the audience an understanding of what will happen when we are to do proper testing.
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| Custom made dimmer switch |
On the day of presenting we were able to connect the entire circuit together and display it with only minor visual aspects of the equipment missing in front of everyone. It still could not work from the sensors yet but as of the night before we were able to create a dimmer switch possible of working with the arduino and car battery. Now all we need to do is connect the sensors and insert them into the places on the trolley as well as make the interior parts more appealing to look at.
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