Scanning images into an electronic whiteboard

Problem
One of the central pieces of Classroom 2000 is an electronic whiteboard, called ZenPad. ZenPad, designed by Jason Brotherton, allows for basic whiteboard capabilities during a lecture, keeping track of exactly when all gestures are created. An additional feature of ZenPad is that it allows an image (in GIF format) to be loaded into the background. The teacher can then write on top of a prepared presentation.

The objective of this project is to allow a teacher to bring prepared slides printed on paper to class and load them into ZenPad's electronic whiteboard by scanning them in. To accomplish this, you need to construct a system that scans in an image and then automatically FTPs the result to a place that ZenPad expects. It's not all that difficult to do and there are a couple people who can offer some pretty good advice on how to proceed.

Background

• Look at the Classroom 2000 Home page.
• Take a look at lecture notes from a sample Classroom course, CS 3302 Spring 1997 to see what the slides look like after class.
• Contact Jason Brotherton to discuss how to integrate your scanner with ZenPad.

• We will provide a scanner, or you can recommend that we use a particular scanner which we will purchase for your use. This scanner will need to be attached to the Liveboard currently in room 102 with a parallel interface.
• You will need to present a demonstration of your system.
• You will need to hand over all source code for your system.
• You will need to turn in a Web page that describes your system.