Today the design team had a wet run with version 0.1 and the polar bear puppet. It was awesome to see the polar bear move how we inputted in the application. There are some bugs, however, with the synchronization of the servo with the audio files. At the moment there seems to be problems with where the servo should start as the minimum position, which would be the mouth being closed entirely and the maximum position, which would be the mouth totally open. Some of the audio voice files had the mouth starting a little open and we couldn't seem to do anything to make it start in a closed position. Aside from that everything else seemed to work with minor difficulties. As a team we logged in some issues on Google Code which were a little tricky. I think we got a good start and i think as a team we will be able to find all the major bugs...the question will be if the implementation team will have enough time to squash them all! I am optimistic with the outcome and i think we will have something that will perform as good or better than what is out there.
Aside from the testing, I have taken on the task of making our drab and ugly GUI into something that is more pretty and fun. I discussed with some members of the implementation team last thursday about what we as design team could do and they brought up that we could actually design the pieces to the GUI. I have always dabbled in graphic design so i said i would be able to facilitate that for them. Last weekend i was able to get the zoom in and out icons completed and will be working on creating the rest in the weeks to come. For those interested I have posted below the zoom in/out icons...
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