Prototyping Process Jacob & Tim

A small scale bread board test to see if our elements would work together, however they caused some interference that wouldn't be fixed until we soldered things together/separated the power sources of things.

 Our beginnings of putting things on to the table.

We finally got dimming to work!

This equation was necessary to our success. Without this algorithm the table would literally fall apart.

We had some issues with dimming the incandescent string lights. We had originally bought a Power Tail SSR, to control the voltage going to the lights as we thought this might allow us to dim the lights. However, to our demise, this wasn't possible. So we needed to buy a Zero Cross Tail which would coordinate with the Power Tail to help our lights dim.
However, things continued to get sticky as we walked through the code, and tried to dim the lights. It seemed that delays and interrupts (which the zero cross tail used) wouldn't work well with each other. And it seemed that the actuator wouldn't actuate without delays. So we ended up using two Arduinos, and merely signaling the other one when we wanted to actuate the actuator.