On December 10th, the group met up to assemble the project. The LCDs were programmed and placed into the stadium. Chris and I, Francesco, programmed the LCDs. I soldered wires to the pins on the LCDs and ran them to the Arduino boards. Chris then cut out holes in placed them on the board. Ryan programmed the stepper motors (off screen) and assembled the bat and arm for Ortiz.

Jumbo Tron LCD Display

Here is a video of the LCD screen that I, Chris, programmed using the scroll example in the Arduino Folder.  This LCD will act as the jumbo tron in Fenway Park and will read out "David Ortiz Grand Slam."  The code was altered to read the text we wanted and to scroll at a speed that was easy to read.

Fenway Park

On December 9th I, Francesco, assembled the pieces of Fenway Park. On the bottom are speakers that go to the amplifier circuit. The amplifier will be connected to my iPod and play a continuous loop of the audio of the following video clip:

Around the board were placed white and yellow LEDs, and these were connected to the chaser circuit. Altogether the back functions as such:

Pieces

On Saturday, December 7th, I, Francesco Catizone, assembled pieces for the background effects of the David Ortiz cutout. Firstly was a base for Ortiz. A 14 inch styrofoam ball was cut in half, and one half will serve as a base for Ortiz to stand on.

Two external power supplies were produced. The one on the left is a 9V power supply for one Arduino board. On the right is a 12V power supply to run  another Arduino board. If additional power supplies are needed I have extras.

 Two circuits were assembled. On the left is a basic amplifier circuit to provide audio for the project. A continuous loop of commentator feed on Ortiz' grand slam during game 2 of the ALCS against the Tigers is planned on being utilized. On the right is an LED chaser circuit. The circuit will utilize 7 digital outputs, represented by LEDs, that will "chase" from 0-6, lighting up individually; 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,0,1,2...This effect will simulate cameras flashing in the stadium.

 

A moving figurine of Steve Horgan, the Red Sox bullpen cop, will be placed in the background. This paper cutout is the expression Horgan made in reaction to the grand slam. He will rotate via a servo motor behind Ortiz. 

All of this will take place in Fenway Park. A cardboard box was painted to resemble Fenway. The blank white rectangle is to be used for an LCD display to act as a JumboTron, and somewhere on the left half of the board will be placed another LCD display to act as the scoreboard.

here is a video of the bat arm that is going to be used during assembly of David Ortiz

along is a picture of  the David Ortiz cut out

while waiting for the parts to be created, these were the parts that were needed to be created 

when these parts are completed the final stage can begin 

the next steps that i, Ryan Carnevale, have taken were to program the servos responsible for swinging the bat and moving a ball toward the bat. a potentiometer would be used to put the servos in certain positions.  this was the code that was used.

#include <Servo.h>

Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo
Servo ryanservo;
int potpin = 0;  // analog pin used to connect the potentiometer
int val;    // variable to read the value from the analog pin

void setup()
{
  myservo.attach(9);
  ryanservo.attach(10);// attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object
}

void loop()
{
  val = analogRead(potpin);            // reads the value of the potentiometer (value between 0 and 1023)
  val = map(val, 0, 1023, 0, 179);     // scale it to use it with the servo (value between 0 and 180)
  myservo.write(val);
delay(15);  // sets the servo position according to the scaled value
  ryanservo.write(val);
  delay(15);                           // waits for the servo to get there
}
The next step is to set up the LCD screen to show the score and David Ortiz's name and assemble the parts.

Progress

On Thursday Novemer 21st, progress was made with the cutout. I, Francesco Catizone had previously made a solid baseball bat cutout that Ortiz will be using to swing.

Then the bat was inserted into the assembly by Ryan of the Ortiz cutout with his "arms."

 

Our team's project idea is a moving cut-out of David Ortiz, from the Boston Red Sox, swinging his bat.  His body and arms is going to be a cut out from the Acrylic material we have at our use.  Then the bat and maybe a baseball will be 3D printed.  We plan to use a servo and a linkage in order to create the swinging motion of his arms.  Also, we have planned to use an LCD screen to read out "Red Sox Homerun!!" when he reaches the end of his swing  .Another idea we're playing with is having and audio playing during his swing as well.  We will use our Arduino boards to control the servo, the LCD screen, and possibly the audio. 

Below is an idea we're working on for the movement of his arms and the bat.



 

We're continuing to play with how the linkage of his arms will work and how we will control the movement with the servo.

This image is what were basing our cut out off of.  We're creating an outline of his body to use for the design of our Acrylic cut out.  We also made a table in order to create a reference scale for his body.

 Once we perfect the movement and structure of his body we'll move onto making his LEDs, and surrounding effects that were mentioned before.  In addition we may have a background scenery with fans and LED camera flashes to add to the affect.  The moment we are trying to create is the grand slam Ortiz hit in the ALCS this past post season.  This is where the audio will most likely come from.  Also, we may add a cutout of one special fan that gained attention from this homerun, who is pictured below.