about the proposal

yesterday, we went through the process of explaing and expanding on our idea... the Power Dice, our team ended up choosing the idea based on the uniqueness and relativity of the idea.

our pressentation went rather well, we covered all the topics, and kept questions to a limit, meaning everyone understood what our pitch was about

to explain again in further depth, it involves a dice that remotely controls a power switch board. whatever the dice shows after the roll, it will determine what appliance is on (while all the others are switched off). while having  the dice as the main control, we're gonna attempt to power the dice with a dynamo mechanism to save power, and solar power for the switch board (either charging up a battery or having a wire coming from the outside into the home)

we're still discussing about the size and the weight, as well as what the dice is to be made out of

team formation

yesterday, we started to form our teams, i'm in team number 4, we all had several ideas about what to do, about what's doable and whats realistic, which fits under both sustainabilty and physical computing

one idea i came up with was an automatated moving LCD or plasma screen, this is achieved by  having a block with an accelerometer that acts as a little version of the screen. while turning this block, landscape or portrait, this turns the screen wirelessly 90 degrees... this is used for veiwing photos fullscreen rather than letterboxed

the other idea i thought of is to make a  dice that controls what appliancess in the house is turned on a one particular time... say, side number 1 is the tv, number 2 is the stereo, when the dice face showing 1 is up, the tc is on and only the tv... when 2 is faced up, the stereo turns on turning off the tv... and simlpy to turn off all the appliances, side 6 is turn upwards

virtual world within our world

i recalled something that i watched on tv awhile back, it was a programed called beyond tommorrow, it's kinda geeky i know but hey, i'm doing IT/multimedia it's my forte so it's ok.

well this youtube link pretty much wraps it up about what i'm going to talk about on monday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvuF31-t9HU

this is a project by Hit Lab, Christchruch, New Zealand, they work with virtual reailty within the real world, the term being "AUGMENTED REAILTY" putting cgi or text ontop of or in the images we see, so it looks like it's really there but it's not

it's uses can be educational... showing 3d objects in layers, navigation, labeling cites and buildings, story telling, medicine and much much more...

i believe in ways it's a form of sustainability because we can reduce the amount of eletricity of billboards and signage, reducing materials such as tangible objects like mobile phone/pda/black berry/laptops where this can be replaced by a goggle/glasses/visors.... similar idea to the anime "denno coil" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennō_Coil

so instead of upgrading little gadgets, we can make a pair of glasses that has upgradable software... via internet access

Here's my research

http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physical%20computing/176/

i came across this site while i was trying to find something to do with  physical computing

it's a very neat site where it goes through the main catergoies of physical computing, i thought that i should post it up for people to have a look at, i'm gonna be talking about it a bit in the monday presentation

First Blog

this is the first post... ta da... post number 1... u'll see more of IENV3000 coming ur way in the  near future