The project we are working on is a virtual air-hockey game for the Microsoft Surface that utilizes an accelerometer mounted on an arduino to provide easy/realistic control. For more information about our project check out this post: Games for the Microsoft Surface Here is a quick view of what our game will look like: In …
Category Archive: Technology
Jan
20
Jan
20
Accelerometer plotting in MATLAB
The current project I am working on concerns reading data from an accelerometer in order to move a player in an air hockey game being played on the Microsoft Surface. There is a delay in tracking fast movements on the surface which can be an issue when playing a game. The idea is to cut …
Jan
20
Mapping Data On The Microsoft Surface Within InfoStrat.VE
Over the Winter Break here at Project54 I have had the chance to work on developing an application for the Microsoft Surface. This project uses the InfoStrat Virtual Earth software, which provides an excellent template of an interactive 3D world using Bing Maps. My application uses environmental data (in this demo sediment levels in water). …
Aug
19
Wireless Socket Data Application
This summer at Project54 I have been working on my senior project, of which the ultimate goal is to allow wireless control of police cruiser devices via a motorola handheld PDA. The first part of this project requires an application on the PDA that allows the user to connect to a wireless device in the …
Aug
19
Infrared Illumination when Measuring Pupil Diameter
In most of our experiments here at Project54 we incorporate eye tracking. It is useful, not only to be aware of where a subject is looking, but it can also measure pupil diameter which is an indicator of cognitive load. Over the years we have simply discounted unreliable data. Most of that unreliable data is …
Jul
15
AR.Drone Quadrotor Flight via Microsoft Surface
While working under Andrew Kun in Project54, I have been researching and developing applications for the Microsoft Surface for my Senior Project. This project has eventual collaboration with other schools and professional groups working toward a multi-touch application which controls a fleet of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. Other groups have developed similar UAV …
Jul
11
Games for the Microsoft Surface Presentation
My partner Shawn and I gave a presentation a couple weeks ago focused on the games available for the Surface. For our Senior Project we are working on designing a virtual air hockey game for the Microsoft Surface, I will be focusing my work on creating a controller that tracks a users movements and how …
Jun
15
Scent Based Virtual Reality System
Researchers at the University of Tokyo, Japan are working on developing a virtual reality system that not only integrates sight and touch, but sense of smell as well. Their past research indicates that a person’s sense of smell can affect how certain foods taste. They developed a virtual reality apparatus composed of a camera, goggles, individual scent tubes, air pumps, and a …
Apr
19
Technology in the Cloud Seminar
As I share photos with readers using the eceblogger Flickr account, I cannot help but think about how cloud-based services are currently taking the world by storm (pun definitely intended). In a seminar about cloud computing, Curtis Quimby and Dan Dulac from Enterasys Networks discussed the origins of the cloud and the benefits of it. …