Sprint 2 complete

Hello readers.

We've just finished our second sprint, and I think it's time for a status update.

As far as getting stuff up and running (which was the goal for sprint 1), I think we can say we got the last tech up and running this week, namely the Spheros. We also fixed a couple of bugs in the tangible API that we're using. You see, the tangible objects (Sifteos and Spheros), are connected to the web browser through a gateway server which has been developed at LTU before. We connect to the gateway server via a RESTful API and web sockets. The gateway server then in turn handles the communication with the devices. This is a pretty neat way of controlling stuff from the browser, and avoids a lot of trouble one would otherwise encounter if attempting to do the communication via a plugin.

The projector group has also been able to verify that their image analysis code works when using a real projector. Some lessons were learned, e.g. that projecting the color red does not mean that a perfect red color will be displayed, depending on how good the projector is. It is good that we're learning these lessons this early in the project.

The WebRTC group is working to finalize the workflow on the website. It's important to make the website easy to use and intuitive. We also need to come up with a clean design to make the whole experience great.

During the sprint to come, we will mainly code features and try to make everything as stable as possible. Maybe we'll show you some exciting sneak peeks too. =)