As I said I would before, I now have the time to write about my projector idea, at the moment it has come to a standstill while I do otherwork but this is something I want to finish soon.
Attached as the first image is a picture of a zoetrope which is what I have based this design around. I wanted to create something which an audience could interact with while also testing out trying to create an animated drawing using stills. A zoetrope came to mind with this so I have gone with the idea. I have also looked into other methods similar to this however they are all alot more complicated to make in comparrison to this design.
I cut a bike to get parts to make this projector style piece. In the second picture attached is what i have craeted using a wooden circle which I attached a gear to in the middle. this gear will turn one way and allow the wheel to spin in one direction untill it slowly comes to a stop.
since this image and creating this I had realised using an actual bike wheel would have been alot easier and smoother, so I have scrapped the wooden circle and used a bike wheel. I have attached a chain to this and seen how far it would go untill I had to attach the handle to turn the wheel. The handle had a problem of being too close to the wheel and so I have had to add another gear in the middle connected to two chains, one going to the wheel and another going to the handle which turns the wheel. These three, the gear the wheel and the handle will all be connected to a large sheet of metal which will be used as the surface, the table which it all sits on.
As seen on the zoetrope, there is a paper circle with images on, I plan on putting my images of which I have not yet created onto a clear material, perspex or acetate, something along those lines. The reasoning behid this is because I want there to be a place where you can attach your lantern into the projector and it will create the light source. The plan is that the light will travel in one direction, with the images being moved fast enough infront of the light that it will create a moving animation on the wall in a dark and flickering style, resembling that of an early projector style.
