I want to transform the space using arduino + processing.

On that way I can recognize body presence and transform this information in movement, visualization or sound.
The perception of any space can be changed by using lights or light elements like paper, plastic bags, thread, etc…

Examples SPACE TRANSFORMATION + INTERACTION:

OBJECT AND MEMORY:
Lozano hemmer: “Standards and Double Standards”

this installation is an interactive work which works using belts. These belts can turn so the buckles always are facing to people walking by. If only one person is in the space, all the buckles will face him or her. If several people are moving around, the belts react with the nearest person. The most interesting of this installation is the work with object that can do we imagine the rest using our memory. If we associate this object with something our perception can complete the rest and build the space with minimal resources.




LIGHTNESS SPACES:

One Hundred and Eight – Interactive Installation from Nils Völker on Vimeo.

VISUALIZATION: Project by Estado Lateral.

SOUND:

Soxels at Berlins International Design Festival 2010 from Felix Hardmood Beck on Vimeo.

my idea of using sound is create a play with the interaction with the space and at the same time create music based in a data base of sounds like this:

RESEARCH:

paper walls:

thread wall:



PROJECT:

I decided to work with fabric bands (ribbons) because I thought that the energy to generate air by fans it would be a lot. According to what I learned in P.Comp class, I designed a mechanism which works with 2 stepper motors and 2 servos. The first two porduce the traslation of the bands with a system of threads which make these bands depend on each other.

The servos are in charge of the rotation which is produced just when the bands are separated as far as possible. When that happen, this kind of wall made of bands, it becomes in a musical instrument and the idea is to use the hand detection to produce a different sound with every band. Every sound is readed by Processing from the data folder.

The steppers motors move the bands, according to the distance of the people, when a person is closer the wall appears, and when the person moves away the wall now “dissapears”. This behavior can be detected with a range finder sensor or with a camera web.

work in progress:

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Filed under ICM, Physical Computing.