Well it seems I can’t reliably fix my poor old MacBook Pro and I discovered that my credit card was significantly in credit! There’s a turn up for the books. Give or take £200 it was in credit to the tune of the basic 15″ MacBook Pro with Core i5 etc. etc. So finally I have a working mac. Today has been spent installing all the updates (1GB), XCode and the SDK’s (2+GB) and err… Steam with some games (10+GB).
So after a bit of reading and studying Objectiv C I have a few demo apps working on the iPhone simulator. Can’t deploy the code to an iPhone AFAIK as I haven’t paid apple my dues, y’know apart from a £1500 laptop. :/ Next steps are:
1) Design the UI
2) Work out how to interface with the camera
3) Work out how to integrate OpenCV.
In other news Sciatica is evil. It is in as few a words as possible “Absolute fucking agony”. At least now it just feels like cramp in my right ass cheek.