Week 7

Main update this week is that we sent our prototype Kinect rig to the laser cutters here at UNSW.

Design sent to the laser cutter

Sketchup model of the prototype

 The prototype will be mainly cut out of MDF, but with one acrylic part for the movement. We still need to buy some nuts and bolts to put it all together with, but that will be easy.

This week we also began testing the Kinect integration on my laptop. It all ran smoothly after spending a while setting it all up. It is a little limited with what we can make the game character do from the real world sensor, so we might have to rethink both our level of interaction as well as our method of demonstration.

Next week we are giving a presentation on Intellectual Property as a group, so we spent some time this week preparing as a group. Our tasks for the talk are split into the following categories:

Using IP:

• How to use other peoples IP.
• IP our group is using and how we should use it.

Creating IP:

• Automatic IP Rights.
• Formally Registered IP Rights.
• IP we've created and how we'd protect it.

 I'm doing the second topic, IP our group is using and how we should use it. This means I need to talk about all the different types of IP that our project involves, and investigate how their licensing agreements and intellectual property protection allows us to use them in the context of our project. The main IP I need to look at is: The Kinect and it's SDK, CryEngine 3, Arduino and Caroma products.