Minutes of the Meeting---- 28th, April 2012

[leelaprabhu93]

Minutes of the Meeting

Date: 28^th, April 2012       Time: 5:30 pm

 

Agenda: To decide which shows, events will be held next Engineer and to divide for work this summer. Marketing strategy too.

 

EVENTS:-

Events that will be there (incharge):-

1.       Blitzkrieg (Adarsh)- opponents will have to attack each other with IR firearms. It will be held in front of the MB and will have an obstacle-course (Shravya, Soumya) like arena.

2.       Psych room-

a.       LED Ball (Pavan)- a 3D ball formed by spinning LEDs.

b.      Liquid light (Pragyan)- A matrix of LEDs of different colours, when a spot is touched, light ‘ripples’ out from that point.

c.       Shadow LED (Himanshu)- A LED matrix in front of which you hold your hand and the LEDs behind will turn off with a shadow like effect.

d.      Floating bulb (Bhuvana)- A bulb levitating in mid-air and powered by pumping EM waves and no wires. Its intensity will change with the background music.

e.      3D cube (Pavan)- A 8x8x8 LED structure that responds to music.

f.        Waterfall (Anirban)- A series of fans that blow foam balls up in a column. It responds music too.

g.       Emotion reactor (Himanshu)- A panel of LEDs that change colour based on the emotion displayed by the person standing infront of the panel.

3.       Megapixel (Himanshu, Deep)- A huge LED display to be hung on a building. Games will be played on it. (DX ball, Snake, Tetris)

4.       Contraption (Greeshma)- A huge contraption that will be at the entrance. Needs a lot of volunteers.

 

New events that will be there, provided they meet the specified deadlines:-

1.       Theramin (Varun)- A set of antennas that produce music as you move your hand through their field. Can be integrated with Laser Harp (Amber, Bhuvana) which is a harp that produces different sounds as you pass your hand through the chord-imitating laser beams.

2.       Fruit Ninja (Leela)- Based on the Android App where strokes with a knife cut falling fruits. Keyglove/Kinect can be detect  used to the hand movement directs the knife. Needs OpenGL

3.       Air Sketching (Rakshith)- a camera an IR pin will be used to detect the strokes of the hand and using OpenCV they will be processed and the strokes will be displayed.

4.       Music Creator (Shravya, Sam)- A DDR like layout. Where different spots correspond to different tones in an octave.

5.       Doodle Jump (Pranav)- a see-saw like board on which someone stands and tilts the board. A doodle jumps on the display depending on the direction and magnitude of the jump.

6.       Strong Man (Divya)- A carnival game that involves hitting a stump to drive a ball-like thing up a pole. Can be integrated with Power Cycling (Pranav) that involves driving a ball up a pole by cycling.

7.       Guitar Hero (Pranav)- Kinect based. Play a virtual guitar infront of the kinect and music will be generated accordingly

8.       Air Hockey (Shromona, Pooja)- Based on Image Processing. The arcade game.

 

New Events that have been currently cancelled but can still be played next Engi if proven feasible.

1.       Arcade (Shromona)- ways to make it fool-proof and unbreakable.

2.       Virtual Bowling --- dunno what was decided…. :/

3.       Chirow Dance (Pranav)- Cost of Visible Lasers. Is it feasible to implement within a reasonable budget?

 

OpenGL will be needed in quite a few games- incharge- Pooja, Soumya S., Chetan, Himanshu

Design circuits to filter out components sound  for Waterfall, 3D cube, etc.- Ajith, Ankith, Anoop, Shashi, Leela

 

Deadlines:-         Mid-Julyà Feasibility report

                                1^st week Augustà Show Prototype

Plus updates on the group every two weeks.

 

SHOWS (everyone!)

Any details on any cool performances, please post them on the group.

Show should be half an hour atleast.

Around 7 lakh budget (?)

 

MARKETING (everyone! In charge- Sam)

1.       Brochures, Posters (Photoshop)

2.       Portfolio needed while asking for funds

3.       Approach companies

4.       Event-wise(for big events) and as Technites.

5.       Budget-wise marketing

 

 

 

[Adarsh Hasandka]

Hey everyone I've made the google spreadsheet. Please indicate which projects you would be interested in working for.

[Adarsh Hasandka]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApRPb8WnCHjzdEFNZ3FTVkJFUTFSUXJLNzVjNDJWa3c#gid=0

[Adarsh Hasandka]

I have also shared an expenditure form. Please fill this out if you have made any purchases for technites 2012
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDVycTFOd2tfQ1pZTC1uSFhYeFdGRmc6MQ

[Adarsh Hasandka]

There will be a Technites meeting this Friday (27/07/2012) at 5:30 pm in the main building to finalize events for this year. Make sure to be there.

[Shravya Boggarapu]

Hey, I have an IE meeting also at the same time.

I'm not sure which i shud attend

I have worked little on my project. 

i didn't do hardware cause i wanted to use the ddr pcb and i had talked to pksa bout it. he gave the associated code of ddr. the coding part i've done little. pksa also asked me to code a litttle for megapixel, ping pong is very similar to dxball. do u want any other games for me to develop? i can do that if necessary.

Also, what is the finalized matrix size for megapixel, i left it as a variable for now.

Sam said he wanted to use asbestos as the material for making. i asked him if he cud do that cause he said he cud but i haven't followed up on it after that. We probably hav to order them though, will increase the budget then. so, wanna confirm about that with u

Shravya

[pavan k shetty]

The size is 18x32.This is the maximum size. Might have to reduce if at all structure issues come up.
As I said think of 2 player games using the joystick like in last year's lasertanks. More fun and covers more ppl. Ping pong is one such option. See if it's possible to display time and score on the Big screen. DDR circuits are all over technites room. You could take them or if you don't find take it from the DDR board itself.
Who has the technites room key?
Can someone put up minutes of yesterday's meet?

Regards
Pavan K Shetty
NITK Surathkal
Final year BTech
ECE

[Leela Prabhu]

Minutes of the Meeting
Date: 27th, July 2012 Time: 5:30 pm

Agenda: To finalize events for Engineer.

EVENTS:-
Events that have been confirmed:-
1. Blitzkrieg-to be tested, requires volunteers

2. Psych room-
a. LED Ball

b. Liquid light
c. Shadow LED
d. Floating bulb
e. 3D cube
f. Waterfall
g. Emotion reactor
3. Megapixel – PCBs ready
4. Contraption- design of the structure and area of setup needs to be
decided. Plenty of volunteers required.
5. Theramin
6. Air Sketching

Events that maybe there if sufficient work is finished before
deadlines- additional notes on work to be done:-
1. Fruit Ninja- 2 weeks- integrate with OpenGL or the Chrome application
2. Music Creator
3. Strong Man- sensors, basic structure
4. Air Hockey- 2 weeks
5. Laser Harp- 3 weeks- plexiglass to be bought and tested.

New ideas for Kinect games?

Deadlines:- September 75% of work done
1st week October  Clean up and move into Technites room
Mid October  Finish all work. Start setting up games.

Plus updates on the group every two weeks.

SHOWS

Any details on any cool performances, please post them on the group.
Show should be half an hour atleast.

Around 30 min long.

NEXT MEETING
Open meet to generate publicity.

[pavan k shetty]

Any news about music processing?

Regards
Pavan K Shetty
NITK Surathkal
Final year BTech
ECE

[Leela Prabhu]

nothing about it was discussed yesterday...

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:34 PM, pavan k shetty

[Samarth Singh]

Hey

Regarding that music Creator, I was considering using asbestos or some other durable material..

However, got no clue as to how to proceed,shall look into it asap..