Looks like we are shooting for 80 degree horizontal field of view

“http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=wide+angle+webcam&sa=N&start=0“

A google blog search, reveals a few companies making cameras with 80 degree optical fields of view.  Mouly’s selected camera has 200degree (range of view), and a ~78-76 degree optical field of view.

Wide Angle web cams

I searched for “wide angle web camera” for our display. Creative webcam ultra seems to be good. Many products do not specify the exact vertical and horizontal angels covered.

• Creative Web cam. 200° horizontal and 105° vertical view. It costs $129. Product page.

http://research.nokia.com/projects/activity_monitor

http://research.nokia.com/projects/activity_monitor

Accelerometer stuff

Post your apps to the Michiposter

Hey team, we should all post our apps to the MichiPoster.  So that they will show up on the display occasionally.

-Ben

SSAPP Running on N800 Tablet

So we received some goodies from nokia, and I spent pretty much all the whole night fooling around with an n800. I now have SSAPP’s fast bluetooth scanner running on a n800. What does this mean for you? It means very little except that it’s possible to do some pretty serious python on a n800 without that much work. The next trick will be figuring out if there is a way to connect a 2nd bluetooth dongle to the n800, so we can do all the scanning on the device.

Very interesting

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Video Chat on N800

http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2008/02/22/yet-another-video-chat-tutorial-for-the-nokia-n800-os2008/

Minority Report Style Public Display

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/11/minority-report-like-interface-gets-demoed-at-cebit/

We might need to rethink some things

-Ben

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

Not sure if we’ve covered this, but Intel’s Jabberwocky apperently lets you war-walk with your bluetooth cellphone.  It remembers who you’ve seen and at what time, so you can see if there’s a particular stranger who you encounter everyday.

I’m not sure if I would consider this to be an invasion of my privacy, since no single entity is persistently tracking me.  But if they uploaded this data and aggregated it…

Another weird rails problem: form values converted to NULL

[edit]  Hung figured it out:  it was because script/generate scaffold used the wrong param:

if @user_interest.update_attributes(params[:user_interests])

and it’s all gravy again

Remember to SVN add…

i’m not completely sure, but i think svn doesn’t detect new files…you have to add them in yourself.