Monday, December 12, 2011

End Semester Results and Plans for the next semester

It's nearing the end of the semester, and the WiiSmartBoard has a semi-working prototype. However, it crashes due to memory errors and the way the images are controlled, as a group, my project group has decided that it would be best to take the working parts of the code, and use them to construct a multithreaded version of the smartboard so that it has better memory management,encapsulation, and abstraction.

Also, I've been thinking about a new data structure. Basically, trying to create a data structure based off of circles, and indexing by angles. this way a directional search could be created that would be able to search in some smart way. However as of right now, I'm imagining the overhead might not be worth the trade, and it's worst run time if implemented incorrectly could be on par with NP problems due to the connectivity of the omnidirectional graphs... its still a work in progress and more of a thought idea than anything else.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Wii SmartBoard Calibration

Today, my project group working on creating a smartboard finally got the calibration code to work and run in such a way that the board waits for each point and doesnt just grab a bunch of points right away, also we got the board actually drawing points which is fantastic! Right now I've too many projects and homework to really update this project, but once the WiiBoard is done, a full paper is in the works, so look forward to that!