Now that the course is almost over, maybe it's time to check out what awaits us in the future? (at least according to Microsoft)
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Using an Arduino Diecimila board to let a Nintendo Wii Nunchuck control a camera mounted on a "pan&tilt" mechanism with two servos. Nunchuck's accelerometer (an ADXL330) is used to move the camera. If the Nunchuck's "Z" button is pressed, the camera position is locked.
Sketch at: http://www.ideavirus.it
I found this one on YouTube.
A small how-to to make a cheap multitouch pad using only a box, paper and webcam. It's a fun video and shows the easiness of making a such thing.
Your very own multitouch, wow!
This very simple, but yet so extremly exciting game, over a distance. Can it be more fun?
Basically you're playing against a human opponent, just as regular, but this time the opponent can be in another room, city, country. I found it at the ACM portal Try to download the pdf.
After a visit on Google I found this page, describing how the game works.
There's a screen placed in the middle of the table that shows you the opponent and his/her side of the table. The puck is still physical, and whenever it's hit towards the other side another puck
is being shot from the rotating cannons on the other side.You can see that there's a certain delay between the two sides of the "table". It's as if the table is one meter longer.
We had ideas in the project group about making a game similar to the air hockey, but with the feature that let you hoover with your hand instead of holding a "shooting-the-puck"-thing. BUt this game over a distance sounded very interesting. Although we're into the Grass Rug Coffee Table, why not something physical over a distance?
Anyways, this air hockey game over a distance seems to be very fun.
Project exploration assignment
For the project exploration assignment I have chosen the RoutePlanner (from the session “Student design competition”, CHI 2006). It’s a “portable personal training and motivational aide, which displays real-time statistical and locational data”. I don’t know if I fully have understood the product but as I understand it is something that tells you have long you have ran, biked or whatever you do and then even saves the different routes.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find any pictures and did not find much to read about it either but if the device does what I think it does, then I think it’s amazing. I believe it would make training so much more fun and it would be easier to vary your training by choosing different terrain and distances. Spontaneous tours with your bicycle would be easier to do since you would know where you are all the time. Simply a great tool for any runner, cyclist, walker and so on that I think would help a lot. I would definitely buy one.
//Tomas
If you haven't seen it yet, our ever so productive friends at MIT Media Labs have a really cool interaction project in development:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html
I would also like to recommend the other talks at TED, the site is full of inspiring talks about everything from physical interaction and design to physics, biology, education and much much more. A good source for inspiration!
I think this could be interesting for the "music_with_random_objects" group:
http://mlab.taik.fi/~korayt/emipro.html
(a project with Arduinos called "Experimental Musical Instruments")
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