Week 1 – (23 Aug – 27 Aug 2010)
Week 1 was mainly focused on getting the project room set up and all the work spaces organized. We met our faculty advisers Shirley Saldamarco and Scott Steven on Monday, 23 August at 2:00pm. During this meeting we each gave our preferences for team roles. We also met our other adviser, John Conomikes who will be helping us with programing and also advising us with our design. The main role of this meeting was to get to know our faculty advisers and to kick off the brain storming process for ideas about the project.
We met Brad Michael from Lockheed Martin on Wednesday, 25 Aug. Before that, we got together and came up with a list of movies, video games and cartoons which could potentially give us some ideas for the gadgets we are supposed to develop. Here is a link to the brainstorming notes from Tuesday.
The meeting with Brad gave us an overview and understanding into what Lockheed Martin wants and is expecting in terms of our project. We discussed some ideas related to 3D technology st SIGGRAPH. Thursday’s meeting with Brad informed us about the use of power point as the main strategy planning tool used by the Top Gun Academy. Going off on this information, we discussed potential 3D displays, which could project real 2D geographic data into 3D projections, its building and use. We discussed making an interactive strategy planning tool which uses persistence of vision for displaying 3D projections.
The approximate idea is to build a set of three gadgets- two of which are fully functional and one which is a potential sub-division of the other two gadgets, and present them as a packet. These gadgets will be fully functional independent of each other but can also be used together as one package.
We discussed the use of an adhesive touch screen coating which makes any surface into a touch screen surface. The link to that information is : Adhesive Touchscreen
We discussed the team name and Jim came up with a mock up for the logo idea.
We are presently researching building a 3D persistence of vision display which can display real geographic data, is interactive and can be used in strategy planning.
Here are some links to information we are looking at: