Over the past months at work I have been taking a consumer mobile webcam (robot) and converting it to custom interactive experience. Over the next couple of weeks I will be talking about some of the finer point of taking an off-the-shelf WowWee Rovio (which comes with some fine built-in features) and transforming it into something much more. I will be talking about the following modifications in the coming weeks:

• Custom hardware controls
• Processing the video stream in Flash
• Object detection
• Docks and Beacons

This is on the side of the Rovio box:

I will be proving this incorrect.