Last minute scrambles

Frame

On Tuesday I was told to bring $40 for the frame work that still needed to be built which I was still slightly against but as long as it got done I didn’t mind spending the money. I got to class on Tuesday to find that we still didn’t have the materials needed and that Tim, Jo, and I were going back to my train station to pick up my car and buy the materials. This would have been nice to know before class so I could have just driven to class and save us a lot of trouble. After getting back to class around 3pm my cold had got the best of me and I left Jo and Bonnie to construct the frame. Before going home though I went upstairs and procured a mac mini and eyesight (compute and webcam) for us to use over the coming week.

Coding

Tim was having trouble integrating the activity code in with the audio and video of the animals, so we organized to get together today (Saturday) and we got it working up to the point of adding the real images and audio which we are yet to obtain off other group members. In the absence of the necessary material to complete the coding we did user tests by mounting the camera and the approximate height that our mirror will be and pointing it on a downward angle to test if our theory worked.

Unfortunately for us it didn’t, it was reading peoples upper body movement as a person walking away and the blur jumped around randomly. Instead of recoding it another way we found that if we mounted the camera directly above the area we want people to walk through there is significantly less interference and will work for our final project. So tomorrow I am going to Bunnings to try and find some wood or metal material that we can use in a L shape to mount the camera above our user. We are meeting up on Monday to finish off the code and frame and with a lot of luck will have a working prototype for class on Tuesday.