Day 13: (Tue Feb 27, Week 7) Suspended Prototype

Notes for 2024-02-27.

New Assignments

New assignment, due by Friday: group writeup on the suspended performance, including photos and video. Please submit to the Exercise 6 Shared Folder.

Administrative

Looking ahead for the remainder of the first half:

  • Tue Feb 27: debug installation

  • Thu Feb 29: suspension installation critique

After the break: tactile show.

Please use the following schedule sheet to reserve times in the space: KF-S24 A11 Reservations. Ad hoc work sessions are acceptable, but please yield the space to groups which sign up for times.

Agenda

  1. Review of stage setup

    1. one unused C-stand

    2. two unused footlights

    3. four monolights in use, but not all are directed

  2. Review of system configuration (described as viewed from outside, not stage language)

    lamp1

    rear left, white

    lamp2

    rear right, white

    lamp3

    center, center, blue

    lamp4

    center, right, white

    rgba1

    mid, left (on the bundle)

    rgba3

    front, left (on the tubes)

    rgba4

    front, right (on the jellyfish)

    winch1

    rear left

    winch2

    front right

    winch3

    rear right

    winch4

    front left

    winch5

    mid left

  3. Note on winch5: this was added to the system and your config.py may not allow it. Please add one line to the motor_units list in theater/config.py (see Theater Configuration for comparison):

    {'name': 'winch5', 'arduino': '/dev/ttyACM4' },
    
  4. Discussion of performance expectations

  5. Testing and revision