You can now draw on the wall yourself! Go here to try it out: http://wall.tequila-uk.com/
I explained concept in my previous post, but in a nutshell you can graffiti on one of the walls in our office. Like, the actual wall. Eventually I want to set this up somewhere more interesting, like in our reception area, but there are some logistical issues with that so for now it’s just in the office.
Screen captures are being published via TwitPic, so you can keep up in various ways:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DigitalWall
TwitPic: http://www.twitpic.com/photos/DigitalWall
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalWallPhotoStream
There are a couple of obvious things that still kinda, well, suck.
1. You can hardly see what’s on the wall via the webcam feed. This is because we’re just using a £5 logitech quickcam, and because the wall itself is in our office under halogen lights.
2. When you add something to the wall it takes a good 30 seconds before you see it in the webcam feed. I had thought this was because the camera feed was too high-bandwidth, but I’ve done a load of tweaking and I’m convinced now it’s simply because of the latency between our office, StreamWebTown and the browser. Whatever you draw shows up on our wall immediately, trust me.
We’re looking at ways to improve it, but at the moment it seems making it really good will take cash. Unfortunately, because this is just pure folly, it probably won’t improve.
Anyway, enjoy.
