The last three dioramas were completed in the past week.
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.
The final version of some of the boxes came together after a lot of testing and iterations.
More parts arrived in the mail so onwards with more tests and model-building.
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.
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).
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.
One of the historical references I am working with is the maquette theatre–miniature models for stage set design.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.