St. James Park "Talk to Me"

Current Cost of Materials

Most of which I have receipts to back up... I'm not counting tax, I can eat that:

• One King-Size Black sheet: $15
• One Bench: $88
• One Ticker: $65
• One pair of mini-speakers: $15

Thus far: $173. Let me know if there's anything for which I've forgotten to account.

St.James animation

About the Ticker

The ticker we just got is called the MediaBrite Classic 213C-1. It requires "programming" in a simple WYSIWYG editor that, in the exclusive case of this particular ticker, can only run on Windows 2000 or ME. As in, anything XP and beyond won't work (or so they claim, I imagine if it runs in DOS it'll run for XP just fine). As of yet there is no programming resource for Mac that I can find.

EDIT: I stand gladly corrected! "MacBrite" will do the trick nicely. :3 I need a different cable than the Ethernet that goes between our modern-day laptops and a wired connection (it appears to need a phone cable of sorts!) but ultimately... WE CAN PROGRAM IT. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.

EDIT 2: So we'll need to use Macbrite on a computer that has a SERIAL PORT. Tomorrow I'll check to see if such a resource exists in the CADRE lab or the IRC (USB to Serial adapters exist and are quite cheap, if a bit hard to find) ; if not, we'll have to use a Windows computer running XP (at the earliest) to run it.

SJP sketch

Here are the Google SketchUp design if u want me to change anything jst holla back.

Our Last To-Do

• Make Bench
°Gather/buy and assemble Bench, LED Ticker
°Design Larger-scale idea of bench (incorporating other media?)
°Estimated Time of Completion (ETC) : One (full) day (Saturday May 7th, I propose)
•Make Box
°Materials
°Design larger-scale idea
°Complete small-scale prototype
• Document our entire project
°Collect 'important bits' for website
°Create basic website (DreamWeaver? Flash? CONSIDER THE AESTHETIC OF THE FINAL VERSION)
°Provide link to THIS blog
°ETC: 2-3 (non-full) days as a full group (These next two days), One (full) day with entire group, 5 (non-full) days individually.

ETC OF PROJECT: Two days (full-efficiency, no regard for other courses), 3-4 days (including time for other courses), 6 days (lowest efficiency)

OUR ALLOTTED TIMESPAN BEFORE JOEL LEAVES: 7 days

GET FIRED UP! If we act now we will have a project that can activate the park!

UPDATE: Here are the sketches of the non-touchscreen and touchscreen versions of "the Box" and the interface workflow. Click on the image for a larger, higher-resolution version of it:

WORKFLOW

BUTTON VARIETIES:

NON-TOUCHSCREEN:

TOUCHSCREEN:

Sketches and Interfaces

By tomorrow I should have the sound effects on the art101a server, sketches of the boxes, and a sense of the on-screen workflow (for the larger project).

UPDATE: Sounds are now on the server. Will upload scans of my designs tomorrow. Currently working on interface design. I would also encourage all of you to come up with some designs of your own, be it through Google Sketchup or pencil and paper or anything in between.