http://www.photonicsmedia.net making things with light Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:32:31 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3610 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:32:31 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3610 The last three dioramas were completed in the past week. ]]> http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3600 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:08:46 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3600 Documentation of seven of the ten dioramas, Some Useful Values, part of collaborative exhibition, A World of Things. Final adjustments and finishes are to be made to these works.]]> http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3584 Sat, 20 Jun 2015 04:18:46 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3584 The final version of some of the boxes came together after a lot of testing and iterations.]]> http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3578 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:52:05 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3578 Diorama07: 10 to the power of 3, length of R.M.S Titanic (269.06 m), wavelength of radio waves (300m, 1MHz)]]> http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3570 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:28:57 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3570 More parts arrived in the mail so onwards with more tests and model-building.]]> http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3552 Sun, 31 May 2015 23:25:26 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3552 This post documents how an Arduino is wired and mounted to a diorama box (100 x 110 x 110 mm3) and how an uOLED screen is wired and mounted to a box of the same dimension while connected to the components at the front of the diorama.]]> http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3510 Sun, 31 May 2015 22:55:13 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3510 Two (near) working models of diorama03: 10 to the power of -6 (Diameter of human blood corpuscle, 7.5 x 10^-6) and diorama09: 10 to the power of 6 (Moon's radius: 1.7 x 10⁶, Earth's radius: 6 x 10⁶) and 10 to the power of 8 (Earth-Moon distance: 4 x 10⁸).]]> http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3545 Sat, 23 May 2015 14:53:18 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3545 This post relates to the workings of the 'spectrum of the visible light' diorama. I want to show the visible light spectrum by staging Newton's prism experiment. This is probably not an easy thing to do at the best of time, but a few factors are working against me.]]> http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3520 Sat, 23 May 2015 14:12:48 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3520 Another physical issue to work out is the wiring which will mainly be concealed. The hard cardboard boxes I use have a recess area around 7mm at the back which is enough to hold the wires. The folding on the back allows a power cable to come out. ]]> http://www.photonicsmedia.net/cabinet/3525 Sat, 23 May 2015 13:12:32 +0000 http://www.photonicsmedia.net/?p=3525 One of the historical references I am working with is the maquette theatre–miniature models for stage set design. Lighting is very important in these set designs and I imagine this is equally so for my dioramas. I am mainly working with LEDS. I do have some old fashion 2.5V and 12V tungsten bulbs but I fear these will generate too much heat. The uOLED screens may also be used to light a few of the dioramas.]]>