Deconstruction of the Helmet

Me and Pip pulled all the parts of the helmet apart. The plan is to use this black helmet and the piece that goes over the mouth, I´m going to paint it separately, with a primer and a black glossy spray paint. The next step is to put it together and sand blast the glass front of the helmet. When Mike has made the LED´s, I´m going to place them behind the glass bit and get some sponge to make it comfortable.

Helm 1.0 - Fabrication

I ripped all the padding off the helmet, so now I have to figure out how to take the clip out of it without ruining the helmet.

Panasonic's Interactive TV Wall

This is a new technology and possibly the future in Interaction Design

The helmet that we are going to use!

We have decided to use this motorcycle helmet for our Helm 1.0 project.
I think the best way to construct it would be taking most thing apart from the inside of the helmet and then sandblast all the outside and mostly the see through glass at the front. Then I need to place the electronics inside the helmet.

Helmet construction

Helmet fabrication

Jim Campbell

Primal Graphics, 2002

Custom electronics

Installation at Battery Park, New York presented by Creative Time and The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park.

"In Primal Graphics 2002, a shadowy figure runs across an empty field. Up close, it is apparent that the lifelike movement is the result of pulsating lights, the screen is actually a 10 x 13 foot grid composed of 192 light bulbs. To create this work, Campbell recorded his subject in digital video, a medium that converts live action to millions of pixels; the artist then reduced the number of pixels until the image reached the verge of perceptibility, leaving just enough data to retain the outlines of reality."
Have a look at this website!

SEA OF LOST TIME

"The Sea of Lost Time is a vast stretch of water somewhere in South America, bordering a small abandoned village, whose hard soil is cracked with saltpeter. At the bottom of the Sea there are terraces of flowers... Many years ago, during the first few nights of March, the Sea - which normally swept along refuse - started to give off a heady odour of roses. People began to return to the village, which had been almost abandoned even then."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "El Mar del tiempo perdido," in
La Increible y triste historia de la candida Erendira y de su abuela desalamada, Buenes Aires 1972.

The floor is censored and looks like water but isn’t. The product is mend to be in a very big scale. When a person walks on the floor, it ripples appear where their feet touch the floor, just as if they were walking on water. It has memory for 5-10 minutes. It should happen randomly, so there is not specific time on the waves.

Sea of lost time - Documentation

I started of by building a circuit of 8 infrared LED´s. When the surface is touched the LED´s light up and the camera underneath the surface reads the lightest spot of the polycarbonate sheet. I choose to use MDF wood for my prototype and graved my name and the name of the project into the sides of the product. First I had to get the LED´s to work and then to place them at the side of the sheet so it would light up. I spend quite a lot of time constructing the product and finalizing it. I used processing to make the interface, when the camera reads the brightest spot of the surface, processing reacts with waves around the brightest spot.

Process - building the product

SEA OF LOST TIME is based in Peru, South America

There are two places in Peru where pleasure rubs shoulders with history: Colán and Cabo Blanco. The coastline that borders the desert department of Piura is a scenery of serene beauty.

Pure white sands, solitary beaches, a balmy sea, epic sunsets, fishermen about their tasks, local cooking based on seafood, and a sense of tranquility not to be found on beaches anywhere else on Earth: these are sufficient arguments to explain the fascination that those in the know feel for these shores, the only ones in Peru that enjoy a tropical climate.

What is more, Colán and Cabo Blanco are two spots in a region that hide a great deal of history.

Here is their website!

Laser cutting session

I decided to use the laser cutter for my project. I graved my name to have on the side of the project and graved the name of the project to have at the front. The product is 300mm high and the touch screen is going to be 17x23 cm. I used 6mm MDF wood to build the product (box).

American Dentals

The most effective way to calm patients is to entertain (or distract) them "Fear and anxiety often inhibit patients from seeking dental care. Audiovisual (A/V) distraction techniques have been shown to reduce patient anxiety and pain during dental procedures." - American Dental Association
	Since their introduction in 1996, i-glasses have established themselves as the premier patient distraction and entertainment system within the dental industry. The reason for this is simple; i-glasses are the only video entertainment device that can both immerse and focus the patient's attention away from the procedures being performed. The patented optical design and high resolution micro-display technology combine to deliver a giant-screen video image with superb clarity. Thousands of dentists, hygienists, doctors and nurses are using our head mounted video display systems. For the ultimate in Patient Distraction and Video Entertainment try the i-glasses VIDEO. Connect to DVD players, VCRs, cable/satellite TV, even Intra-Oral Cameras! Lightweight & Comfortable for all Patients Plug & Play Set Up Compact design does not interfere with Dental procedures Thousands in use Nationwide

6-pack - Arduino-based controller for live audio/video performances

Here's an arduino-based controller for live audio/video performances. Cheap to build and amazingly small...

"6-pack is an open-ended, highly customisable, and ultra-portable physical controller based on the Arduino board. 6-pack is an Arduino shield consisting of 6 linear potentiometer sliders that can be assigned to different variables in the user's preferred software. It can be used to control a wide array of audio/video applications, from software synthesizers to HDJ systems. All, with a minimal footprint (3,5" x 2,5") and on the cheap (just a fraction of the cost of an equivalent MIDI interface). The project is open source. Schematics and source code included." Thanks Will! - Link.

Processing experiments

Make of the circuit

WATER SPARKS - A project by Mathlete

A project by Mathlete The assignment was to conceive an interactive exhibit for a new, high-tech water park on the Adriatic coast that specializes in marine sciences. WaterSparks is a proposed attraction where visitors gather in a darkened room before a large wall tank teeming with bioluminescent plankton called Dinoflagellates. Visitors will be able to wave a wand similar to a reverse microphone (acting as a speaker) that emits high pitch sonic frequencies. Moving the wand across the water tank will focus harmless sonic pressure on the plankton, who react by phosphorescing. Their fluorescent reaction will "paint" streaks of light across the tank surface.