Project 1 Development

Here's a list of ideas that I thought of during class and while going through the tutorials.  Although making things with the Aduino Board was really interesting, I'm feeling a bigger pull towards manipulating video.  As always, most of these objects are not only too ambitious, but fail to provide any sort of meaningful commentary on anything.  It's easy to think of something cool; it's much more difficult to think of something artistic.

• Hooking up a Wiimote to Max - Don't know what I'd do with it, but using the Wiimote's infrared cameras could be neat (and relatively simple by downloading a couple drivers).
• Replicating accelerometers with a camera.  Users would hold a bright green card, and the camera would look at it's angle.
• Having a clear, lit up surface that users would touch.  A camera would look for the shadows projected on the surface from their fingers.
• Having a 3D world users can move though, and whenever they see a mirror in the world, it would show them (with the use of a camera).
• Finding and displaying (abstractly) the number of wireless signals in a room - we're becoming increasing connected/wireless.
• Trick the user.  Actually develop a procedural game with strange rules/interactions, and just when the user thinks they understand how to play, switch the rules or turn off the game.  That way, they think the patterns they were finding were just in their head.

That's it for right now.  Next step is seeing if I can actually do any of this. 

First Post

Here's my first post!  No ideas to put on paper (computer screen) yet, but I'm thinking of the possibilities!