week 5

Looks like we've found a way to get something to following you around.

Lego Mindstorm, it some sort of a motion sensing device that can be fixed up to actually track and follow the movement of a person around an area. Thanks to Megan who though of this great idea, half out problems have been solved, now its just a matter of implementing it and making it work.
We also talking about having some sort of an elevation device to that the cambot can be rised and that people will not be like stuck to talking to it looking down, which basically makes the person on the other end controlling the cambot feel rather small.
We've made arrangements with Petra Wyeld to loan out the deivice and play around with it over the weekend. Sadly all the sets were fully used up at St. Lucia and we'll have to wait till tuesday to actually get our hands on it.

Since there are 2 groups doing the Cambot project which we've selected, we've decided to slipt it up and have something like the other group do the head part with the webcam and we'll do the leg part with making the robot follow you around, and hopefully at the end of the project we could combine both projects together and have something that is 90% close to the completed product.

This is just some info, which the other group might want to know as I did do some research on it only to discover that we will not be doing this part of the project. Yes I looked into the area of having a wireless webcam, I was thinking Director here as its a lot easier to code than Java and I've been working with it for the past 2 years.
Director has this TWIAN Xtra that allows you to interface with scanners and digital cameras, a webcam IS considered a digital camera, thus it is possble to have this working. Haven't really played with the code since I discovered that we'll be doing the motion tracking part. Well, the wireless part could be just having a really small laptop running WIFI in the cambot running this Director software with the webcam, that would pretty much solve the problem, however yah it a matter of making it small and trying not to be running it with a computer.