Dome Integration has Begun!

I've now gathered pretty much all the parts I need to start with integrating the lights and movement effects into the dome.

One of the members on the Astromech forum has created a really clever mount system for controlling the holoprojectors inside the dome. Today I installed these mounts, plus some of the mounts for the lighting effects as well.

Not only do these kits come with the mounting frames, but also all the required hardware to fasten everything up. Once again, the builder's community has delivered!/

Assembling the mounts is pretty simple, I just had to locate and drill the 4 mounting holes for each mount on the inner dome. I started with the front holoprojector first.

It's a 2-piece clamp on the bottom of the holoprojector that then ties into the actuating plate where the servo is mounted. On the pic below you can see it fully installed with both servos installed/

Of course, instead of continuing one with the rest of the build, I HAD to try them out, so I hooked up the servos and gave it a shot. The Arduino program sketch that is already installed for the lighting effects also has the automated movement control of the front holoprojector written into it, so I went ahead and tried it out.

I got some movement, so that's good enough for now! My plan for the future is to have all 3 holoprojector moving randomly. I will need to look into this a bit more, but I think I've already found an Arduino sketch to make that happen. Will just have to figure out to hook everything up together.'

Also mounted up the other lighting mounts, and painted the inner dome it's final color of black. 

Things are starting to come together on the dome. Just need to install the lighting effects and get all the holoprojectors moving and I'll be pretty much done.