Project progress

So far I've read a shed load of papers and done a lot of thinking and planning.

I've also been playing around with some OpenCV stuff to detect where fingers are pointing but at the moment I'm thinking this might be too complicated and unreliable to use. I also hooked up my mate's Wii controller to my PC by Bluetooth and played around with WiinRemote to control the cursor on the screen. Although this would require users to hold a device it's a lot more accurate and reliable and means I don't have to spend weeks working on a computer vision problem (which isn't really under the remit of my project).

I've also made some progress with the hardware; the bookcase is built and has hinges and I've been playing around with NVKeystone to give the keystone correction I need for the projection onto the screen.

Today I fired up Netbeans and wrote my first few lines of code - it was a bit disconcerting starting from a completely blank screen realising that eventually this will be my project! So far I've got a Java GUI full screen with a custom cursor. Not very exciting, but it's a start!