Assembling the Projection

Today we met in college to assemble the projection ready for tomorrow's presentation. We hung the ball, suspending it from a beam and tied it tightly to ensure it stayed in place. We then hooked the projector and laptop up and started working out the height from the floor to the projector table in which it needed to be to make the image central to the ball.

After settling on this height from the floor, we then had to determine the position which the projector needed to be to make sure we could see the image clearly.

After this we then needed to consider the fact that some of the image would go off behind the ball and had to use a piece of card with a hole into block out some of the light coming out of the projector so the image would stay JUST on the ball itself.

After a bit of trial and error on Carol's behalf, we managed to get the hole to right size, and set it so many CM away from the projector lens. We made a stand for it and have marked with masking tape and marker where exactly this needs to sit ready for the projection tomorrow.

We masked out the floor, where the stand should be so we know for sure where everything needs to be positioned tomorrow! Yay!