We have made a lot of progress over the past week. Our entire system is integrated together and we have been performing a lot of testing. More specifically, we began a user survey to find the “magic curve” for moving the projection from point A to point B. This survey involves having the user experience 6 different combinations of speed and movement. We are continuing the survey into tomorrow and hope to have a finalized “magic curve” for our final presentation tomorrow.
While running our entire system this week, we have find quite a few bugs and ideas for improvement. This intensiveness testing of our system has been extremely beneficial for ensuring we create our system to the best of our ability. For instance, one issue we found was that the motor was a bit jerky as it moved from point A to point B. A great amount of time had been spent making this movement much smoother.
We also got a working motor and added in vertical movement. Currently, the motorized projector responds to the user’s change in pitch and yaw, which is great! The vertical movement of the projection is definitely more sensitive than the horizontal movement, so we have been and are continuing to take extra care when working with this direction. Another development is with the calibration process. We found the calibration to be a bit difficult to work with, so we are currently transferring the calibration system to be more user-friendly. For instance, one small improvement is that we added sounds to alert the user when when the calibration process changes states.
We still have a lot of progress to make but are extremely excited to see our system working and gaining user feedback!