While I had been working on the hardware and programming, Jan mostly worked on building the installation. Around the time he was finished i got everything done as well, so it was time to put everything together. Communication from both sides went well, I kept him up to date about where i needed wires and…
Audio hardware en infrarood sensor
To trigger the atraction state i choose to use an infrared sensor (PIR). But since it has the form of a half sphere its able to detect 180 degrees around it, and i want it only to detect in a straight line, otherwise it would detect movement to often, I decided to build a small…
Token Design and Print
To measure our value we are giving passerby tokens. I have designed and printed them. Had the five shapes to represent out categories. My first few prints where unsuccessful, but with the help of Ibrahim I was able to print them. The tokens will be collect at the end of the project from each shop…
Of posters, token cups and client briefings
This afternoon was one of the most pleasant ones of the project. I spent the afternoon visiting our clients to hand out posters, token cups and providing the final briefing about our installation and the concept to the location owners. This meant that I was longboarding through the city in the sun all afternoon, a…
Stand for Installation
I had an idea to show our infographic on a “phone book” to tie in with our theme. Along with this we made a stand for the book. Jan created it the stand. I painted it, and got the logo 3-d printed. Getting the infographic off Ibrahim, changing the background to suit the yellow page…
Form Fail
To get the users to interact more with our campaign of promoting Enschede unique places, i designed a form that users could fill in there favourite places on the website. Unfortunately I tried many different ways but was unable to make it work. Then I came up with the idea to use a book for…
Audio boards
Creating the audioboards was a challenging task since audio is not my area of expertise. However I found designing the boards with audacity a lot of fun, it was interesting to translate an atmosphere into sounds. i worked on the audio boards of the Tor, Light of India, SBTG and the Upperside and the Wooldrikspark….
LED strips
The LED strips we will be using for this project are the WS2801 LED strips. The reason for this is that this is an adressable led strip. Each led in the strip should be adressable seperatey, since every podium on our installation should be able to light up seperately. We bought 2 meters of strip,…
Website Coding
Only being a beginner at coding, I wanted to test and develop my skills in this project. It was time consuming but rewarding to see it coming together. I am happy with the outcome, having four different pages with the content changed in each page. The home page, page per category, about page and then…
User testing the Phones
Today we finally tested the phones on the installation. Kaj got them working a couple of weeks ago however with the construction partinstallation completed with the phone holders we could perform a proper user test with the phones. The holders for the phones were something that I improvised, since I figured whilst desining that they…
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