Home Run

Just had feedback yesterday on our project so far, and to be honest it was all really positive. The stage we are at now is very daunting- in two weeks time we will have two networked objects and an application for the iphone (demonstrated on an ipod Touch). The plan at the moment is basically to do as much as we possibly can. 

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A problem that we have at the moment is that webcams typically don't have very good focussing capabilities close up. This means that the cameras will need to be far apart, thus making the writing tablet far too cumbersome to be a realistic prototype. Ideally a scanner is what we would use but scanners are incredibly difficult to use with pure data - the programming language that we are using. 

The deliverable prototype is purely to demonstrate the experience of using our objects, and we can see how to fake a lot of this but we need as much of it to be automated as possible. Or maybe that's just a want. 

For the 'iPhone' our thinking is, as it doesn't understand flash, to make a website designed for the iPhone's screen size that uses java script to interact with the postcard. One of the reasons that the critique we received yesterday was so positive is down to the small details of the design, and so I hope that I can retain as many of these as possible. 

.... Java script tutorials here I come....