After four really short weeks, I have a better idea as to where my project is going.
Keeping in touch has become very easy in today's tech savvy world. Twitter, facebook, and other social networking sites provide a quick and easy way to stay connected. But, the people being left behind are the not-so-tech-savvy people, who do not use internet on a daily basis(if not every minute.) My project is to bridge this gap between the always online children and the not-so-tech-savvy parents.
For this, I plan to use a Chumby. Chumby is an ambient device that looks like a regular alarm clock, but, it connects to the internet to diplay all kinds of information like weather, news, photos and much more. This can be used to display the status updates from the internet for the parents to know about their children. A Chumby application that gives information about the children at-a-glance will helped parents stay connected.
On the other side, a facebook application linked to the Chumby will help the children get messages from their parents. Chumby has squeeze and tilt sensors. So an application that may be "pokes" on facebook when the Chumby is squeezed or sends a message when tilted would serve this purpose.
Thats what the idea is right now. Lets see how it goes :)
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That's a nice post that sounds like the basis for a good project :-)
I'd like for you to flesh this post out over the next few days into a 1-2 page document to see how it looks (something like the initial project proposal document perhaps?). Have you had any thoughts to what the initial prototype might look like? How much work might that require?
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