We Have Power

We tested the LED's last night...they all powered all fine and dandy...

Now to find the ever elusive "Compliant Surface"....


Also, we have got a sony handycam that we are going to put an IR Filter over instead of hacking a webcam....main reason...the webcam starts at $130...Bill already has the sony handycam, which we tested and it works fine.

Building the Frame/Mount & Screen Support:

Okie doke, after a nice expensive trip to Bunning’s...for Bill...($128), we had all the necessary aluminum supplies to build our frame for our system.



We used some cool elbow joiners to connect the base and legs of the frame…

And for the part that would hold the screen, we used the same material, only it has a lip on it so we can easily rest and secure the acrylic onto it…





NOTE: Lucky we made the screen acrylic because we did drop it from about .75 of a meter and it did not have a scratch on it. We will be 50 X more careful in the future.


We then needed to cut the pieces of u-frame that would support the acrylic, hold the PCB and LED’s and make the system look neater…this ad to be done carefully as we needed it to be as accurate as possible…









So hopefully you can see our vision starting to take form now, well part of it anyways.

here are some more random pictures of us building the frame...

The crash…

As you all now know, my HDD crashed, the files are there but the boot segment is corrupted. Unfortunately our FINAL version of our studio II presentation, digital mock ups and the application are all on this HDD. I am working on getting the files off them; however we had to present our DRAFTS for our presentation.

Thank you for your patience and for still taking us seriously during our presentation.

As soon as I get my demo application off the HDD I will make sure it is not corrupt and the post a link to a demo, or if I can’t manage that…will show in class on Tuesday.

What system parts we have:

Huge haul on system parts, we now have the following parts and can start to build the system now…

- Acrylic.
- IR LED’s.
- Resistors.
- Solder.
- Blank prototype boards/PCB boards.
- Lots of non-reflective black electrical tape.
- Wire.
- Molex Connecters.
- Power supply.
- Connection Block
- Possibly usable mirror for projection.

We still have to purchase the aluminum framing, u-frame and general construction supplies for the mount, just need to make a trip to Bunning’s.

System Design

Upon realizing that our system design was not really that aesthetically sound, we decided to work on it some more, so I put the coding on hold for a couple of days. We went through a few ideas…

After a bit of ludicrous designing, we realized that our designs were not really portable and would suit different and more specific environments. We wanted to be able to have a self contained system that could possibly be wheeled around, but till be collapsible and easy to move.

Application update:

I am having great success so far with the application (special thanks to Dekker with one little coding problem), the application is coming along nicely. Essentially, I have the user’s icons displaying, and the folder within folder effect working well. The opaque portal style display works well to define what a folder is and what isn’t.

I also have drag and drop file copy/paste/move working. I am starting to mimic the multi-touch events first so that when I migrate the triggers to Multi-Touch triggers it will be only a matter of calling a different class, which will save a lot of time.

Screen shot…(remember is in strong development mode...going to make it look much more eye pleasing...but for now the recursion is working)...



As you can see, the recursion is working well...and again, will probably convert this to a coverflow style app in the end...but having the recursion working and file access functional is a great achievement atm.

So it is coming along nicely, hope to have an exported exe soon…but want to add a few things first.