Milestone followup

As an extention to the milestone post, here are example of the arduino kit working as well as the kinect interacting with CryEngine 3.

Simple Motor:

This is a simple motor being turned on and spinning at a set speed. This is a very basic form of how our Kinect rig would spin and move. By altering the variables in the code for how fast it spins we can control the amount of rotation, and by linking the movement up to a different input variable we can determine when to move it.
A copy of the code to create this can be found here.

 Light turning on and off:

 This example shows a light being turned on and off by buttons. It demonstrates the ability to toggle one aspect of the arduino with an input other than just power. In this case it's a switch toggling on then off, for our project if could be input from a an aspect of the kinect sensor telling the arduino to act.
A copy of the code to create this can be found here. This code comes from a basic code that keeps the LED on, and is modified to allow for the button to turn it on and off.

LED dimming:

This one is essentially the same as the last, although the loop part of the code is altered to constantly increase or decrease the brightness of the LED depending on whether the on or off button is pushed.

Light array:

The light array code turns all of the lights on at the same time, while applying an increasing delay on them as it moves along the array, making it look like the light is moving across them all. The notion of a delay in code would be useful to our project both in moving the Kinect, as well as interacting with the Crysis environment through the Kinect, as some interaction would be useful with a slight delay, such as positioning different things in the bathroom to suit the occupant.
The code can be found here.

 Potentiometer:

 A potentiometer is a resistor that, in this case, connects to 5 volts actoss its three pins, and will read a value between 0 and 5 volts depending on the angle it is turned. In this setup, the value is stored and used to determine the speed at which the light turns on and off. The application of this in our project is that it demonstrates how to gather an input, store it's data and then use that to change an output.
The code can be found here.