Internship Camera Cage

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Outside Camera Set Up

Front View


Back View

In preparation for the 2023 NFL draft (Link to news video: Cardinals fans celebrate Draft Day at State Farm Stadium - YouTube) I was in charge with assembling the cage for the cameras. The plan was to have 3 broadcast cameras outside the stadium. We planned to connect the camera's triax cables to the hdfx (boxes at the very top) which would have SMPTE cables coming out to the MultiDyne huts (boxes in the bottom). Since the company is aiming to focus more on Fiber, we run fiber from the MultiDyne huts to the screens. Fiber is a type of cable that has light traveling through is making it faster and more expensive than regular copper cables. We ran several tests in the control room by mimicking what the set up was going to look like outside which we worked.
I began assembling the cage for the set up. I had to screw on the racks. I also made sure to screw on a lacing bar right underneath and behind the shelves since the HDFX and MultDynes were heavy. I also included the power strip at the bottom. Initially, I set up the power strip in the front but what told it would be easier to have it in the back to reduce the amount of slack and loose cables in the front which would be hard to organize and make it harder to close the cage. I then connected all the power cables and SMPTE cables accordingly. Lastly, I included the switch (blue box) and the FIDO converter. I was told that the racks with the holes was designed to velcro things onto it, so I did just that. For the FIDO, I just attatched a piece of velcro tape on the bottom and it stuck perfectly. The cage was now ready, so we took it outside where it would be set up.



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