The installation is up and running along with the selection of years feature, thus making the bulk of the programming work FINALLY COMPLETE. The only thing left to do is to put the floor decal. As many visitors were expected each day over the long weekend there hasn't been a chance to place floor decals down, but hopefully they will find the opportunity to do it sometime soon (as some visitors and children don't seem to read the instructions on the corner of projection on how to interact with it, and instead just run amok in front of it, not knowing what is going on).
I feel lucky that we have got a powerful computer for the installation. I could not even test the Year features on my mac as it was painfully slow to run anything at all. A fast PC really makes all the difference as it works magically smoothly onsite at MBS.
I think the reason why it was finally possible to do this within two weeks is that the equipment is so easily available (kinects can be bought at the 24 hour Challenger store even!), the device does not even need to be hacked apart physically, and the documentation online for kinect and as3kinect is excellent (although you will need to sift out the white noise of random discussions and blogs also discussing similar problems and errors encountered while building it). Although... I did work overnight in the kitchen for a few days in order to program and test it...
