Well Hello,

ImagineRIT is a creativity and innovation festival at RIT. This year we had more than 27,000 vistiors to our campus.

Finally we have had the chance to show our 1.5 quarter long work to actual people. The feedback we got was universally positive. We had 600+ artwork submission to our website and we ran out of twizzlers. At the end of the day, movosity was in top 15 most popular exhibits out of 2200 exhibits. Yes.

Our final directions went from hands to a drawing, which better reflected the application.

Most recent version of the interface design:

Welcome to the MoBaps blog!  Some quick info on the project we plan on doing: We are currently working on an iPhone application that will allow users to create drawings in 3D by moving their iPhone around in physical space and having those movements recorded.  This will allow you to draw 3D objects, or to show a representation of your movements over a period of time if you leave the app on while it’s in your pocket.  The app will allow you to save and share drawings, as well as view drawings shared by other users.  A companion website will also contain a gallery of drawings.  For more information, see our design document.

Since none of us have done any iPhone development in the past, all of the developers started by downloading the development SDK, and trying to familiarize ourselves with it.  I downloaded and installed the SDK, and after a bit of trouble finding the application (It doesn’t install into the Applications folder, and it doesn’t have “iPhone” in the name, apparently that’s enough to stump me), I created a basic hello world app.  It took less than 15 minutes to create, and it worked fine in the iPhone simulator on my computer, but when I tried to put it on my iPod, it kept giving me errors.  Turns out you need a special developer key from Apple to actually deploy your apps, so we are in the process of getting that.

In the meantime, I cleverly took a screenshot of the iPhone simulator and uploaded it onto my iPod’s photo gallery.  This way, I could open it and pretend I had actually managed to get my app working on my iPod, which I guess is slightly more impressive than just being saying “It works, trust me.”  Of course, It still isn’t all that impressive, but hey, I’ll take whatever I can get.

Lastly, this blog is still a bit of a work in progress, I designed and implemented the theme manually, which is not something I really have any clue how to do correctly, so there are probably a few problems.  Areas like the blogroll will probably fill out over time as we discover helpful resources in developing for the iPhone.

If you’re thinking “Why don’t you add my favorite blog to the blogroll?”, the answer is because it would be silly to put a link to ourselves in our own sidebar.  If you’re thinking “Why don’t you add a link to my second-favorite blog?” let us know what the link is, and if it looks useful, we may post it up.  And if you’re thinking “Can you point me in the direction of what is possibly the best music video ever?” yes I can.