{"id":18,"date":"2010-12-24T22:53:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T22:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2011-07-13T23:37:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T07:37:43","slug":"rfid-dance-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/projects\/rfid-dance-project\/","title":{"rendered":"RFID Dance Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RFIDDP project was intended as a collaboration with the local dance company to examine the issues of modern day surveillance and the idea of reversing the cause\/effect relationship of music on dancers.<\/p>\n<p>The project was conceived on the morning of New Year&#8217;s Day 2007. It was initially only worked on during holidays and breaks from school as I was finishing up my MBA and working my full-time tech job.<\/p>\n<p>I enlisted my partner as the musician, a few other embedded software engineers who wanted a project to sink their teeth into and a hardware engineer to help with layout and manufacturing. I handled the rest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Project Management<\/li>\n<li>Design concept<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Hardware design<\/li>\n<li>Hardware bring up<\/li>\n<li>System Architecture<\/li>\n<li>Funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main challenge was modeling the gesture parsing engineer offline. It meant I needed to collect a large gesture library to feed into the group&#8217;s various ideas of how to do gesture recognition. Once we found something promising, we could move it to the embedded platform target.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a video I made for the Hacker Fair in 2010 to explain the overall system.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8Gc3JAt56M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[slickr-flickr tag=&#8221;RFIDDP&#8221; size=&#8221;small&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ngWltJJ6zGA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"640\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ngWltJJ6zGA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RFIDDP project was intended as a collaboration with the local dance company to examine the issues of modern day surveillance and the idea of reversing the cause\/effect relationship of music on dancers. The project was conceived on the morning of New Year&#8217;s Day 2007. It was initially only worked on during holidays and breaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icismachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}