Advisor Meeting: Michelle Carpenter

I met briefly with Michelle and we discussed my outcome of this thesis – I had been seeing plenty of vision demos and thought they looked quite interesting. But I wasn’t sure this outcome really spoke to a situation where I’m…

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Posted: January 25, 2012
Categories: Thesis

Advisor Meeting: Michael Salamon

By the time I met with Michael I had decided that natural gesture interfaces was not the wave of the future (pun intended). This kindda disapointed me and I was left with the question: WELL, WHY THE HECK NOT? Yeah…

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Posted: January 20, 2012
Categories: Thesis

Advisor Meeting: Brian Delevie part 2

I have been loaded up with books. Brian took me up to his office and started handing me books and then piling more books on top of those. I am not as big as Brian obviously thinks I am so I managed…

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Posted: January 19, 2012
Categories: Thesis

Advisor Meeting: Brian Delevie

The coding was not going well. A complete failure on my Mac, the tricksy program code to integrate wii movements with the computer was proving reticent to work on even Paris’ desktop. My coding skills were getting much better (C…

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Posted: January 19, 2012
Categories: Thesis

Hacking the Wii: hardware

In order to get this whole Wii setup to work, we’re gonna need some infrared LEDs. Right now we’re using some red LEDs from a toy but obviously this isn’t optimal (and also we keep burning the batteries out).…

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Posted: January 14, 2012
Categories: Thesis

Hacking the Wii

Oh my goodness I have been deep in code for days. My thesis is looking to be centered around what the media is calling ‘natural gesture interfaces’ – basically what the Wii and Kinect are right now.…