Over the past few days, Lightdraw has received quite a bit of attention. Let's see where Lightdraw has gone:
Polytechnic Student Research Programme , Best Project Award Presentation Ceremony
I have received no official description about this event, so let me put it in simple terms: The PSRP is a program where all five polytechnics will choose their top two research projects and have the students to present them at the Award Presentation Ceremony. Lightdraw was selected to represent Temasek Polytechnic for the year 2008. In this year, only three polytechnics participated, namely, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic.
The guest of honor for this event is Mr Boon Swan Foo, Executive Chairman for Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd, Chairman for Technology Transfer Network and Managing Director of Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
Below are two pictures taken from the invitation book, with Lightdraw highlighted with a red rectangle overlay (in the second picture).
This event was also covered by Channel News Asia and was mentioned during the news broadcast as well as on its website (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/334218/1/.html). If the link does not work, you can refer to the picture below of a scanned printed version.
Temasek Informatics & IT School Project Show 2008 + Lianhe Wanbao
Lightdraw was also showcased at Temasek Informatics & IT School's Project Show. It was categorized under the "IT @ Work" category (the other two were IT @ Play and IT @ Home). This is the first project in the booklet given to all guest and industry partners who attended the Project Show. For this demonstration, we were given an enclosed room to set up and show Lightdraw. Some of the more exciting challenges in doing this were:
- Wall Reflection - As the room walls were white, they tend to reflect an awful amount of light
- Webcam Compatibility - We had difficulty in finding the right camera to use for Lightdraw on Ubuntu
Below is a project write up of Lightdraw, in the booklet given to all guests.
On the same morning as the Project Show, a reporter from Lianhe Wanbao (a chinese newspaper) had a short phone interview with us. An article about Lightdraw came out the very same day in the evening copy of Lianhe Wanbao. The scanned version is below:
V-Camp
I was informed that Lightdraw Game: Whackapeng, was used in this community event. The kids who came down to IHPC had a great time playing the simple game of encircling two game pieces (or what they call "pengs") with ordinary everyday devices, such as torchlights and hand phones.
Lightdraw Video II
ASTAR Institute of High Performance Computing released a second video of Lightdraw onto YouTube on March 13, 2008. As of this blog post, it has gathered 28 views so far. The second video (or first public video) consists of newer video footage such as Whackapeng and Laser Window Manipulation. It also retained some previous functionality footage from the first cut. Without further ado, here is the video:
This is Lightdraw's 15 minutes (or more?) of fame. Hopefully, there will be much more in the future to increase the awareness of the existence of such a cool project.
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