What do you do with the protocol that does everything?

What do you do with the protocol that does everything? The answer, "anything you want", is decidedly unhelpful. PTTP is a tool - but how do you present that tool to people? Having been immersed in the design and programming side of things - the temptation is to try to show off all the technical features. But most people aren't really interested in the, "how do I do this with it", especially when they don't know what it is yet. What they want to know is, "what's it for" and, more importantly, "is it any use to me?". (Many thanks to Clare for some useful steering here. And also Dan Efergan, who said something similar to me many months ago - only I'd forgotten.)

In practice, this means we're concentrating on a simple playground, inspired by Etch-a-Sketch, which allows people to draw all over a building. That's drawing in light, with a projector, so it rubs off easily. There are also still many interesting things to look at with Joanie's VJ mapping and Richard is looking at some games that can be played on a projection system.

We're in the fortunate position of having far more ideas than we have time to implement (see http://wiki.mediaplaygrounds.co.uk - so a lot of those will have to wait until after the showcase. We also need a good name for drawing on buildings in light - I bet "digital graffiti" has already been overused.