Exhibition
A collection of projects and demos built with Arduino.
Chatter Pillow
Rebecca Stern
http://yg.typepad.com/makingtoys2/2006/11/chatter_pillow_.html
Chatter uses the Plushie Message Framework (chat-parsing script to Arduino to wireless module) to send selected instant messages from your computer to the message pillow. Often times I leave my message client open just to get that “emotional check-in” or other brief snippet from my sweetheart, but I don’t want messages from anyone else. With the Chatter Pillow, I just alter a few parameters in the script to filter all but three messages from him: “xo,” “on my way,” and “talk to me.” That way I can be on the couch or ready for bed and still get the message. The pillow lights up with the appropriate symbol indicating whether he’ll be home soon or if I should make my way to the computer to answer a question.
Turned Stairs
Daniel Hirschmann
http://www.plankman.com/projects/tuned_stairs/
Tuned Stairs is the introductory installation for the Fabrica exhibition at Center Pompidou on 6 October - 13 November 2006. As visitors walk down the stairs leading to the exhibition, their footsteps activate a musical sound. The installation refocuses the attention of the visitor onto their footfalls - allowing them the opportunity to compose their timing, movement, and the resulting melody.
Control Freaks
Haiyan Zhang
http://failedrobot.com/thesis/
"Control Freaks are devices that attach to everyday objects, turning them into interactive game play objects. When the Control Freak attaches to a host object, its movement, vibration or sound, can be translated into control functionality for a game. The situation, location and behavior of the host, are all enablers for opportunistic play experience. The Control Freak device therefore enables any object in any situation to become the focus of play adventure."
Haiyan used normal Arduino boards, the Arduino prototyping board, and custom PCBs with ATmega8s and the Arduino software to read an accelerometer and send the data to a computer running Flash games.
Sonic Graffiti
Chia-Ying Lee
http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/c.lee/SonicGraffiti/index.htm
"Sonic Graffiti addresses music experiences for both creators and audiences. A system of devices enables graffiti artists to create and geo-tag music in the urban space with real spray cans. For general audiences it provides a listening experience giving a sense of connection with the environment."
Chia-Ying used an Arduino board to read an accelerometer and buttons mounted to the spray cans. The data was used to control the playback of sound samples on the computer.
OpenBuilder
Vinay Venkatraman
"OpenBuilder is a project that investigates the role open source technologies can play in transforming under developed economies with the use of social projects. This report touches upon various trends, strategies and discuses these issues through 4 distinctive design projects. The design projects investigate the various roles open source technologies can play, as a service, a product and process facilitator."
Vinay used Arduino in his haptic web brower prototype, in which a knob mounted to a motor from a toy car, using a mouse as a cheap encoder, provided tactile navigation through web pages. It also appeared in some of his prototypes of a joystick-based motor controller for a wheelchair.
[the website doesn't have much information, so you should download the report: http://www.openbuilder.org/documents/final_report.pdf]
Random Snooze
an alarm-clock that randomly chooses the time when to wake you up again after snoozing. It is meant to both stress you in the weekdays, but give you a relieving feeling in the weekends independently of how long you sleep.
Urban Forest
Markus Appelbäck, Håkan Carlsson, Staffan Björk, Eddy Svensson, Linus Lundahl
http://televatr.org/urbanforest/
a multi-user sound installation that invites the audience to produce and play with their own sound-loops that will be pitched through caressing different parts of the installation.
Electronic Dance Machine
a computer controlled dancing suit that makes the dancer -though the use of electroshocks- move in certain ways depending on the music. It forces the artist to an extrem coreography conducted by the machine.
Rocking chair
a chair filled up with light emulating water. Designed in children size, it invites the visitor to play with the light while rocking on it.
Xsense
a helmet to cross the senses tranferring sound into visuals and distance to objects into psychodelic sounds.
Waves:
2nd place at Telefonica's Artificial Life 9.0 contest consists of an installation that representes the activity surrounding it with a visible oscillating transversal wave.
Fluidforms-design:
winner at Salone Sattelite 2006, Fluidforms allows the user to create 3D shapes through punching and huging a boxing sack. The system, connected to a Processing program will then be 3D printed as a vase, a jar, or a lamp.
Frida V
Luka Frelih
http://twiki.ljudmila.org/bin/view/Luka/FridaV
Frida is a bicycle designed at Ljudmila media center in Ljubiana. This artefact is meant to cruise cities mapping wireless networks and storing different data about the enviornment, the state of the road, etc.
Hour glass:
this cardboard made prototype is meant to count the time it takes to boil an egg. It shows the combination of the very fragile cardboard as a physical interface to electronic devices.
Hacked Asuro robot:
the German Aerospace Agency developed a robot that was hacked by the Arduino foundation during Ars Electronica 2006 to work as part of the official Arduino IDE and library system. In this way people that had been using that robot get a much more friendlier interface to work with.
Chinese multipod robot:
a chinese student in mechanical engineering was the first person ever including Arduino as part of the logics of a robot. His multipod crawls slowly over the floor like an insect.
Madrid trash robots:
there is a whole community of robot builders in Madrid (Spain) that construct small two-wheeled robots out of everyday trash and electronics. When Arduino showed up, they found the easiest way to include digital logics in their designs. As a resul, hundreds of kids at secondary schools in Madrid have changed their technology books for self-made Arduino robots.