[KwartzLab] Felt Lab Tour: Monday June 11 at 6:30 pm

[Darcy Casselman]

Ah crap.  Not anymore!  I'll organize something with the board and let
people know the new time.  I kinda wanted to hold one before the AGM
next Thursday.

Darcy.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Punkin3.14 <punkin at mag3.14159.ca> wrote:
> Awesome; thanks for organizing this, Doug!
>
> Is there still a Board Meeting that night?
>
> On 2012-06-05, at 3:11 PM, doug moen wrote:
>
>> Note the changed date: next week (not next month).
>>
>> I've arranged a tour of the Felt Lab on Monday June 11 at 6:30 pm.
>>
>> I hope the time works for most people. Agnes asked for a weekday.
>> Chris wants "late afternoon", but I don't want it too early, because I
>> figure many people are going to be at work during standard work hours.
>> So I'm suggesting 6:30 pm.
>>
>> Christopher wants to play with the toys, so I've arranged that (see below).
>>
>> This will mostly be a talk and a tour, so that we can figure out where
>> our mutual interests lie, and how the two labs can work together.
>> There will be opportunities to play with a subset of the equipment,
>> and expanded opportunities at later visits.
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jennifer Janik <jenjanik at gmail.com>
>> Date: 5 June 2012 12:34
>> Subject: Re: Felt Lab tour and initial contat
>> To: doug moen <doug at moens.org>, bod at kwartzlab.ca
>> Cc: David Goodwin <dgoodwin at uwaterloo.ca>
>>
>>
>> Hi Doug
>>
>> We are currently working on documentation of the capabilities and "how
>> to" documentation for all the equipment in our lab. We're not quite
>> ready to be able to support working with all the pieces of the
>> equipment, however, there are some things you can work with easily.
>>
>> Next week, I could accommodate a visit/tour either Monday or Tuesday,
>> afternoon or evening - June 11 or 12.  The week after that is also
>> wide open and we should have better documentation by then.
>>
>> In terms of equipment you can play with before I have documentation, we have
>>
>> GestureTek Cube (you can bring images or flash programs and we can
>> load them up and play with the effects).
>> Christie Digital MicroTiles - Essentially they are like a monitor so
>> we could connect them as a display to whatever you have.  Our wall is
>> a 4x6 array of tiles so it's quite large and you can display large
>> resolution images/videos.
>> We might be able to add the Kinect Camera with the MicroTile wall if
>> you want to experiment with any Kinect Hacks.
>>
>> I could also provide a list of equipment we have and if you want to
>> explore them further we can talk about arranging that as well.
>>
>> Let me know what you'd like to do.  Perhaps a tour and talk might be a
>> good start?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jennifer
>>
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