Archive for February, 2010
From the way he describes it in his book, Brenden Dawes must look like he’s ready to go on a camping trip any time he leaves his home. That’s because he keeps everything anything he might need to be able to stop and create a design on the spot, including things like a computer, a [ READ MORE ]
Man it seems like Brendan Dawes has an insatiable curiosity. Throughout the course of these readings and discussions I’ve found myself trying to picture what his home must look like. I have it figured out to be a mix between my Great Aunt Louise’s house and the workshop of a toy inventor; shelves loaded with [ READ MORE ]
So yes, we met on valentines day. Through the hum of the machines and silence of building 70 on Sundays we did the following: Matt worked on downloading/re-finding the SVN with all the files, we also tested them to see if they were any better than the other files we found on the website. Matt [ READ MORE ]
Today the developers got together and started work on our demo to show off on tuesday. We are planning on building a very basic menu and ui just to show off some of our ideas. After some tinkering in flash, we decided to create a simple illustration of how the table would work when using [ READ MORE ]
For our table, we’ve decided to use IR LEDs and modify a web cam to read the infrared signal. Rather than soldering over 100 LEDs, we opted for the more expensive and less time consuming LED Ribbon that you can buy over at Environmental Lights. They also have a handy guide to creating an FTIR [ READ MORE ]
Before there was math, there was faux table creation[ READ MORE ]
We’ve spent many long afternoons trying to figure out what we’re going to do about our projector situation. We’re gone from a short throw to a regular projector, and then back to the short throw. There’s lots of math involved and a lot of trial and error, we managed to take some pictures of our [ READ MORE ]
what we did today![ READ MORE ]
Brittani found some inspiration for our coffee ordering menu system. [ READ MORE ]