.Monday, August 3, 2009 ;
8:22 PM
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The world needs your light....
Today, we had finally conceptualised our third prototype, and the main motivation is to make it even more portable for the purpose of convenience. Since the second prototype was extremely bulky and hard to be carried around, the third prototype could settle this problem easily. The main working principle behind our third prototype is that it can be detached into three separate portions: a heavy metal base for stability, a long perspex vertical column, and a top box consisting of the optical components. These three components can be brought around separately and then reassembled at the presentation venue.
The next step is to disassemble our second prototype which was what we did. We retained all useful components like the crossbars and golden rods, but disposed of faulty equipment like rusty and loosened screws. Every single optical component was also removed and placed onto the working bench separately.
We then placed orders for a motor of higher power so that it can rotate more quickly and generate a higher resolution image and also for a 3.0 metre long perspex cylinder with one covered end for our supporting column.
Mr Lee agreed to help with the welding and milling portions, but we are to do the optical arrangement by ourselves.
Meeting ended at 5:30 p.m.