Saturday, January 19, 2008
Reconfigurable House
This is an exhibition currently going on at NTT ICC in Tokyo, Japan; titled Reconfigurable House, it uses a series of sensors activated by various "visitor" actions. "Each visitor will be able to use a simple interface to configure the reactions and interactions of the house in a completely different way."
The are several input systems in this installation, they are sound, light, touch, footsteps, phone calls, mp3 players, and the outputs are a series of moving lights, different types of sounds and different pitch, flashing LEDs, and a series of moving contraptions.
One of the interesting aspect of this installation is that if there are no input by visitors, it would go into a series of "day-dream" and "bored" state, which it would begin to exhibition different types of behaviors. The software is programmed by using Processing, and the electronics are controlled by Arduino.
All of the source code can be found on the website (link below), and a video is attached below.
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