Week 14 Update

EDIT: Just fixed the issue I describe below. Rather than having two movie files, I just have two out tops connected to one file and replaced the paths of each file with those. Yay.

I am really excited about the setup that I have in touch designer for project 2, but there are a few issues I still cant resolve. I went in today to try and add on more elements for the other sliders and things I have to go along with the crank, but I realized that only a short portion of the long video was playing on loop. I guess in my attempt to sync the two videos for the blur effect to work, it ended up locking them to the timeline and they both reset after the first 10 seconds or so. I'm now back to having the full video play but dealing with the same issue I had before where I can't get them to line up. I've spent about an hour trying different things and am still stuck.


Also, I filed down the edges of my 3d printed crank bit, but it still doesn't fit nicely, so I think I am going to just scale the whole thing down, reprint, and secure it with glue. My hope is that during class next week, I can get everything secured with perf board and have it ready to install onto the final mount. I thought it would be interesting to look into rear projection and create a sort of latched box for the final presentation of the video and have the crank mounted on top of it (because the glove box in the car has a unique twist knob latch and that would be another cool tactile thing to simulate) but I do not think time will permit that, so I am still trying to think of a simple yet interesting way to mount the crank and play the video. 

In other news, I am feeling irrationally stressed about the typewriter. Hopefully I can progress on fixing the code part this weekend if nothing else, but pretty much every time I sit down to work on or think about this project, I freeze. I'm also working a School of Theatre show right now so my 6-11 PM time slot every day for the next week is completely gone, which doesn't help. On the plus side, though, I have a design ready for mounting the circuit board that I am going to print early next week, so I'm hoping for the best on that. From there, I need to solder the correct paths and expand the code so that each letter is read properly. 


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