Monthly Archives: January 2015

Working through some hardware issues

We’ve been working on some hardware issues with the HoloDragon device.  Learned quite a bit about how everything is working together.  A few notes:

  • The advertised viewing angle for a lot of LED monitors (even IPS ones) is total b.s.
  • There is a big difference between low, medium, and high end monitors.  Holy cow is there a difference.
  • Linux is great until you want to get it to work with anything really new.  We’ve had to invent a few things to get everything to work.

We’re a bit behind but its coming along.  Figure in 2-3 weeks we should be ready to show it off.

It’s ALLLLLIIIIIVVVEEEE!

Stopped by the prototype shop and turned on the HoloDragon for the first time today.  It spun right up and blew us all a way.  They did a great job!  Here are some pics:

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The main menu. Device is a bit naked for our tastes but look at all those flashing lights. It’s packed super tight with electronics in there.

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Sketch and Tell, one of our first completed games on display. How awesome does that look?

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28″ wide, 16″ long, and 1.25″ of awesomeness

Now all we have to do is fix a few of the minor issues and wait for graphics to do its thing and we’re good to go.  Some of the things we ran into:

  1. Viewing Angle – Not much we can do about this but its a prototype after all
  2. Crashing – A little problem of it crashing when under heavy load.  Hoping its just software
  3. Browser going crazy on us – zooming and flinching on its own

We’re all excited!

We’ve been working for over a year on the the hardware and software for HoloDragon.  Tomorrow we get to see the working, assembled prototype.  How cool is that?  We can’t wait and we’re all excited over here!  Pictures to follow.  Crossing our fingers everything goes well.