Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 16:47:10 -0800
From: Toby Schachman
Subject: Wii Noun wall
Combining the last two wall projects, search nouns and move them around on the wall.

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During development, we get a lot of comments from the peanut gallery. Some are useful (Emily's suggestion that dragging an icon back onto the search area should delete it).

A group of people collectively invented a pictionary-like game and started evolving the rules (put a whiteboard in front that obscures the guessers' view of the search area).

The Last Supper
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow
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I'm finding tension in the desire to position icons precisely and the imprecision of the Wiimote as an input device. We tried snapping the icons to a 100x100 pixel grid which feels totally fine, so for "snapping" applications it shouldn't be a big deal. We'll try ways to "nudge" icons next.

Putting up our own IR LEDs that are farther apart than the provided thingy (sitting on the chair) might also help a bit with precision. I have ideas for a Wiimote "debug view" (based on Glen's suggestion) that will help us explore this.