Today saw the second Sun@Strathclyde tech demo, this time a talk about the innovative Sun SPOT wireless sensor technology. There's a fair bit of interest in using these at the university, especially within the EEE department, but sadly since that department still hasn't gotten back to me about arrangements to promote my events I wasn't able to get anyone from EEE along.
That, combined with the fact that it's the end of term, meant I only welcomed along 12 CS students and lecturers to the demo today - not a great turnout given last week's attendance, but those who did come seemed to be quite interested in using the technology - not to mention earning themselves some Sun T-shirts by getting involved (thanks guys!).
Below you can see a short video clip from one of the live demo sections. Sadly the 'Air text' effect doesn't show up very well on video (it works by 'tricking' the naked eye), but you can get a decent idea of what it looks like here.
Since tomorrow's the last day of term, that pretty much wraps up the tech demos for this semester, but I'm still going to be watching the forums and checking my email, so if any readers need to know anything about Sun@Strathclyde, please just give me a shout!
That's kind of spookily similar to the issues with our Sun SPOT demo the day before (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~andrew/ambassador/demos.html -- note blatant style stealing...); a low turnout (14 in all) and partly due to the information about the event not being disseminated as widely as possible. We did get one guy from EEE, and he said that more would have turned up if they'd only known about it. It's annoying when beforehand we were expecting the lecture theatre to not be big enough...
Posted by Andrew John Hughes on May 07, 2008 at 03:42 PM BST #
Oh the air text effect does seem to have come out on the video quite well, better than I could see it in reality in fact! :)
Posted by Andrew John Hughes on May 07, 2008 at 04:47 PM BST #
Hehe, I had the same problem about the room - turned up with tons of flyers, forms, free CDs, etc, laid out the room all nicely, and only twelve people showed up. Far cry from the previous week, when I had people sitting on tables!
Nice to see the nabbage is going around - I, of course, re-used the style from this weblog for the Sun@Strathclyde website. Seemed to make sense to keep it consistent. Now if I can just work out how to do it to the forums... :-D
Posted by Lamsey on May 08, 2008 at 12:13 AM BST #