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Searching for the best shape
Our quest of finding the perfect shape for our big weeble has begun! While making new shapes out of foam and cardboard, we also designed some 3d models. Printing those made them come to life. We added weight using clay to give the weebles their wobbly effect.
Testing the crossing beams of the Weebles.
Making the acceleration prototype! The purpose of this prototype is to explore the emotional connection between light and acceleration. In example, if the prototype is heavy, should the light be harder to generate? Should there even be a coherence between the weight and the sensitivity? How fast should the light fade away?
Exploring forms for the next prototypes.
Tom constructing the second prototype. This prototype aims to discover if blending color is interesting enough for visitors. By crossing the iron poles (which substitute for the lightbeams) colors can cross-over.
Rob constructing the first prototype. This prototype is made to test the connection between movement and light, wether it’s clear enough that you can generate energie.
Presentation for Glow
After choosing three different concepts, we needed to work out a proper presentation for Glow with the main goal of selling at least one. To do this, we made some visualizations of the concepts and some prototypes. The concept of the Anemone was still in a very early stage, so we choose to drop it as we had little time left for preparing the presentation.
Heartbeat Resonator
The Heartbeat Resonator is an iteration of the previous Music Scanner concept. It creates a music composition bases on the crowd. It is based on the thoughts of light providing information. Light can be used to scan surfaces, translating it into a digital form such as digital music.
The object releases a pulse in 360 degrees based on a certain rhythm. As a person is detected, the pulse will bounce back to the object, creating a sound.
The person can alter his sound every pulse by getting closer or further away from the object. This way, the user gets a lot of control with little effort. It could experiment with different angles and distances, creating different tunes.
This is a topview of the installation, visualizing the states. Glow thought this concept had potential, but the focus was wrong. Because this project relies a lot on sound, light was pushed into a side role.
The Tuimelaar
This concept is based on a very basic interaction, pushing. By pushing the object, light can be generated. The concept is based on the thought of the nearly instant speed of light. As someone could move his hand holding a laser, pointing it at a church, the light on the church would move very fast. The movement of the hand would be very small, but the projection of light would move a lot. This thought is translated into these ‘tuimelaars’.
As a lot of weeble-like objects are pushed about, a lightshow is made. This show can be seen from all over Eindhoven, making it an spectacular and interesting sight.
As objects are pushed more intensely, the light generated will be more visible. In that way, the user can express him or herself through pushing, showing themselves all over Eindhoven.
Glow thought this concept had a lot of potential. The interaction was basic and the focus of the project was fitting Glow. The next time we are meeting Glow, we need to have realistic plans about financing the project. For that, we need to investigate proper materials and components such as lights, electronics, power supplies, etc.
Also, the concept needed to be more interactive. A suggestion was made that the three objects are linked or could cross beams, making combinations possible.
The next few weeks will be focussed at finishing the final concept and making the project realistic.
SWOT analysis
The selection of concepts was still too big to present to Glow. We needed to choose between the 6 concepts, otherwise it would not be possible to present something decent to Glow next week.
Per concept, we did an analysis of the strong and weak points, pitfalls and opportunities.
We choose three different concepts: the Anemone, the Weeble and the Resonator. These concepts will be prototyped and visualized for the upcoming presentation.
Prototype of natural interaction. This robot illustrates how something natural would ‘scan’ the environment. If it touches an organism, it retracts.
As we were searching for the perfect forms for one of our concepts, we used techniques like 3D printing and lasercutting. From paper to realization made us think about materials and presented us problems we didn’t think of. We’re definitely going to make more!
The chosen ones
Using our matrix we managed to choose 7 different concepts to work with. The matrix covered all of our research conclusions as well as our personal preferences. Here’s a short explanation of the concepts:
Trashball
This installation converts trash into music. The visitors of Glow are able to leave their trash behind and make something creative with it. As trash is inserted, the hole the trash is inserted into lights up and glows for a while, as it makes a sound. The sound contributes to the music the installation is producing.
This installation is present at multiple locations. As trash is collected, a data visualization can be made.
Anemone
This concept is based on a different form of scanning, the sensory that nature uses. This form is based on an anemone like creature, with flexible tentacles reaching for the crowd. As a visitor touches a tentacle, the anemone registers the intensity of the touch. If it’s a gentle touch, the anemone will try to discover the user with more tentacles. If the touch is wild or a hostile pull or slap, the anemone will retract it’s tentacles en close completely. After a certain time, it will flourish again.
This other form is a bit more geometric. As the visitor touches the form, it retracts like it gets tickled. The shape can be altered with the intension of touch. If the form is not touched at all, it will return to it’s original shape.
Auroralines
This concept translates the phenomenon of the polar lights into a playful installation. Scanning is noticing the difference in particles.
The earth catches a lot of light particles. The way the particles are caught alter the colour of the light. In this installtion, small particles are displayed at the floor. Each visitor gets a magnetic field which adjusts the particles paths. As the visitors walk around, the flows of particles change. If a flow of particles hit an objects, it lights up. The objects represent planets, on which polar lights can occur.
Strolling lights
Strolling lights is based on the idea of creatures exploring the earth. As exploring is a way of scanning, we thought of how nature explores. Nature is evolution, based on trial and error. It remember it’s successes and failures as creatures died and lived.
These robotic creatures are autonomous and stroll around the area. Visitors can interact with them. If the interaction is subtle, the strolling lights will not flee. If they get disturbed, they will be gone as quickly as possible. Every strolling light could have it’s own personality and learn from the visitors.
Tuimelaar
The ‘tuimelaar’ roughly translates to weeble, a toy-like cone that wobbles around. As we were brainstorming, we wanted to have a concept that was easy to interact with. As the user pushes around the weeble, it generates electricity and lights up. From the top, it emits a beam of light that reaches for the sky. The harder a user pushes the object, the more light it will generate. The weeble is scanning in multiple ways. First, it is converting acceleration into light. Second, it emits a scanning beam of light.
Heartbeat scanner
The heartbeat scanner is a very simple translation of an office scanner. It produces a musicbeat. It emits a 360 degrees scan on a certain rhythm. If a person is recognized, a beat is played. Every user can interact with the object by standing closer or further away, altering the pitch of their presence.
The last couple of weeks, we have spend a lot of time coming up with great concepts. With about 50 different concepts, we needed to choose. First, we combined and narrowed the amount of concepts down to around 16.
To choose the concepts with the most potential for an interesting interaction, we used our research conclusions. We’ve set up a matrix with around 13 criteria, rating each concept with a grade of 0 to 3. After that, we added our own preferences and the possibility of realizing the project. The projects with the highest score would make it to the next round.
After meeting with Glow, we had a certain theme to work with: Scanning. Scanning could be interpreted in many ways. After a lot of thinking, we concluded that scanning is sending, receiving and concluding. This could be directly translated into a machine (a scanner scanning paper that translates material into pixels with the use of light), or an organism (for example, a bat that uses ultrasonic sound to see in the dark).
After a lot of brainstorming about these ways of scanning, we came up with about 50 different concepts. After combining and writing off some concepts that were very similar, we ended up with about 16 unique concepts.
Usertesting the first prototype :)
Prototype one is ready for testing! #Musicscanner
Design for lasercutting our first prototype: The musicscanner
We've had a nice conversation with our mentor