Ecco make your own blog

Hey Ecco, could you make you own blog and just link updates on mine thanks...also, it's great that you want to focus on ideas for the apps for the system, but you will still need to contribute to the actual assignment in a meaningful way. At the moment we really need help documenting and we are still looking for parts.

email me, or any other members via student email, and we can discuss further...

Extra computer power

Hey, guys how's going? Yesterday I found a extra computer power in my cupbroad, 350W and hopefully it can be used in our project. Otherwise, I seacrhed the Philips Webcam online, it's quite expensive in au, but in us is ok~However, do we have to use the exactly same Webcam? can we try some others frist? and also our report it's due on Fri. I think my part will focus on games which we're gonna use in our project. Is that all right for u guys? pzl send me E-mail if anything I can help....thanks

Proposal Presentation

Well, it was a fun day, got to see everyones ideas. Hopefully we got our point across, the Tutors and Lecturer seemed to agree that a unique image sharing program was a great idea.

Back to our multi touch system though...

Steven's friend Jason bought his system in, which was brilliant, and it gave us an opportunity to talk with another multi-touch builder. I plan to arrange a short meeting to try and outline a few difficulties he had making his so that we may be able to avoid or prepare for similar issues.

Finally, after comparing,experimenting and checking forums about what programs or libraries we should use to program our system. I have concluded that Touchlib would be the best way to go, it has a lot of support and it's library can be used by Action Script 3, so hopefully i can get basic apps running on it a lot easier then expected.

Well...more to come soon....and hopefully will contain some pictures because we are going to start building the system soon.

Acrylic found

cool now that we have found an acrylic, LEDS, Mounting, Projectors...

all thats really left is the Vinyl for the projection surface and more importantly the Webcam and the IR lenz and filter.

Nice job on finding those acrylic places doug.

So Michael did one better. He rang up the place and got a quote.

$46 for A2 size for the allstar place..

And Acryform is 40$ for an A2 sheet.

So it looks like Acryform is the winner. Its also closer to me so i can go pick it up easy. Or they can just deliver.. whatever..

Found two places in Brisbane that could supply us with Acrylic Glass. Iv emailed them today, asking if they can give us what we need. 1000mm x 750mm x 10mm clear. Will post a new comment on their reply.

http://www.acryform.com.au/

http://www.allstarplastics.com.au/

Materials And Guides

Ok so we found the model for IR LED'S, Osram sfh485(thanks to bonnii & Dekker) which can be found at rs components.

At the moment we can't find any Acrylic Sources, if you find anyone that supplies it POST A.S.A.P

We will be borrowing the Projectors from the Uni, and book them four days in advance minimum or else we may not get them, which would suck.

We need to go over the multi-touch forums and web sites to find the best web-cam and IR lens and filters to use. Post if you get some links and spec.

The U-Frame for mounting the system can be bought quite in expensively from bunnings hardware.

So post links to supplies so we can compare prices and start to organize getting them in.


Cheers
Michael