Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Ryan-Rudy-Alan- Ideation

We tooled around with several ideas. I won't upload our sketches until we narrow it down because, at this point, it was really just spit-ballin'. Nothing concrete.

Spitball 1) There's a particular point in the architecture building that reverberates noise, especially claps, like crazy. The walls are so close together that it seems like a hundred echos are occurring simultaneously creating a bizarre new noise. We were messing around with the idea of a sensor that would pick up on that noise and respond with another clap. If It worked, the echo would activate it again and again and again, hopefully becoming perpetual.

Spitball 2) Alan was talking about incorporating several flex sensors into a glove, but for what application we didn't decide.

Spitball 3) Rudy was interested in using heat activated ink for something, but that's a product we'd have to look much more into.

Spitall 4) We had an idea that involved a motion sensor that activated a camera that would snap a picture of passers-by and then a connected projector would display the image on a facade. But, for what conceptual purpose we couldn't figure out.

Spitall 5) I was noodling around, my group-mates haven't told me whether or not they liked these ideas. They're barely ideas anyway, I'm going to write them down so that I remember to bring them up later:
-some mess of weights/counterweights and cogs arduino controls one weight that activates and rudimentary but elaborate analog machine that lowers an item to the viewer is they jump high enough to activate its sensor.
-This is simple, but could be cool. A sensor that activates a black light when the rooms lights are off to reveal something that wasn't previously there. I dunno what I'm talking about.

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