Blog 13

Zongxi Huang

Today, we further worked on the augmented reality project. We found a new tracker and we managed to program some partial parts of the animation for the pacman. We were unsuccessful, however, to make the animation show up in the augmented reality. Hence, we had to find other solutions. After class, while discussing with Ms. Patel, we found a new way to make the cart workable under the time restriction we are forced to work with. In this new concept, we decided to implement everything onto the cart. In other words, both the tracker and the augmented reality as well as the device used to make the AR work will be mounted or located on the cart. Instead of pac-dots,  the pacman will react to any product when they would be placed in the cart. Hence, whenever the custumer decides to buy something, the pacman will open and close its mouth in order to simulate the eating of the product. We have also decided to use the Aduino Micro in this newer version of the project. After the discussion, I put myself to work and I successfully wrote the script for the Aduino program. In the next period, we plan to reorganize the team and start the construction of the cart while I will attempt to link the Aduino with the Unity program.