This video was shot in January of 2009 during an intensive working session at Umeå Institute of Design. The short clip shows the process of preparing Birch veneer for laser cutting test-strips and the burning of wooden letter blocks for an Augmented Reality (AR) spelling game. The video was shot by Matt Cottam and was edited by James Hsu.

Thanks Andrew for the AR grease and Google for the free model.

Spelling game coming soon.

Tellart created a holiday card building upon opensource AR technologies and I created wooded blocks with the UID laser cutter to work as fiducials.

Early speed and power tests on the laser cutter

First Laser Cut Block Test

Testing laser speed and power with birch

Got the speed and depth right for pattern recognition

First well cut block

Link to Tellart’s AR Holiday Card:
http://stream.tellart.com/2008/12/20/happy-holidays-from-tellart/

Will refine the software to capture the blocks as fiducials and then create a spelling game. The simple objective is to recognize three letters in a row by video: D O G. Will work on software back in Providence.