It's getting hot...

Wednesday was much about testing lamps. Our biggest concern with the halogen lamps is the heat they emit, but since we did not know the temperature of the lamp, nor how much heat wood stands, we did a day-long experiment.

A 19mm hole was drilled in the wood, where the lamp was inserted and held back by taping the wires (soldered to the lamp) onto the piece of wood.

We once again made a temporary tile with some old plexiglas and a thin piece of paper to dim it. Then we measured the temperature. The highest temperature measured during the day was 146°C, using a 20W halogen lamp with 35 mm diameter, on 12 V.

During the day we also got a lot of help from Amir, who showed us Max/MSP that could be used for mapping Arduino to a synthesizer. For testing this, we started to make a miniature floor with buttons as tiles on a breadboard.