Implementation Development with Phidgets and Trampoline

Ok looks like Estelle is gonna start this new thread yayyyy! =]

Actually the reason why I have done this is because I've taken over a bit of the responsibility this weekend as far as implementation goes. For the rest of the group who are not aware, Candy and I approached Floyd in the last lecture and aquired the UBER box of Phidgets; they are now in my possession.

This means that we have to start learning how to use the damn things -_- Candy did a presentation on Arduino (similar thing) so there's a start; she knows the basic concept of it. The reason why I have taken them for the weekend is because Nathan is very tech-savvy so I thought we would experiment and try to figure them out Saturday night. However, I would like to encourage the team as a whole to do a bit of research and learn how to use them. Sure we have Luke in our course, but we also want to do this as a group, help each other out, and we'll even learn a hell of a lot if we teach ourselves. Floyd explained a little bit about the software used to connect them to the laptop but I still need to get my head around it :S

When we start learning how to use them, we can further understand what exactly it is we want to DO with them. We need to figure out a relationship between the tramploine and technology....

On that note, I just wanted to recap my appaling disappointment in so-called "Big" W, and the previously thought "major" Target franchise, for their surprising lack of tri-mam-pol-ines (to quote Homer J. Simpson). Myself, Candy, Mikey and Nick Sanders ran half way around Burke St and God knows where trying to find one until poor Nick suffered severely in health =[ Candy suggested buying one online, however I will go to Rebel Sport tomorrow night after Uni; if Rebel doesn't have one, I'll be damned if I were to call that place a "sports store". If I do obtain one, I'll buy it and we'll split the cost even alright people?

Please use this thread to post whatever reasearch/understanding/scripts/software you have found regarding the Phidgets. It would help me a lot on Saturday night. Also post any thoughts/ideas on how we might use them, in relation to our fun trampoline.