This week, I tried to tackle the most difficult challenge of the project which is to actually build the structure of the infinity code. At the beginning, I was thinking of simply just building each infinite mirror (side of the cube), then at the end just simply add each side together to form a cube.
Re-calibration #1: However, in that design, for each mirror we need two acrylic sheet, if the two sheets are equal size, then the side and corner of the cube when put everything together will be empty. So I changed my design so that the inner sheet is slightly smaller than the outer sheet, therefore we can just glue all the outer sheet together to make the cube.
Re-calibration #2: I have two structure for the inner sheet, where the first iteration is the inner sheet will just be in the center of the cube. But then I need to make the structure for the diagonal linkage to hold the inner cube. Second iteration is that inner sheet is not center at the middle but to near the corner which do not require any other structure and fit nicely inside the cube.
Failure #1: So I decided to use the second design of the inner cube. However I made a mistake in my calculation to not add the thickness of each acrylic sheet because when I glue them together it is very tight and I cannot put the LED structure inside so I tried to make a cube out of the incorrect size sheet.
So I have to re-cut the inner sheet, however, it turns out to be smaller than what I thought it would be, So I do not know if the infinity effect would be if the mirror is a little bit too small.