Look what Tommel’s been up to…
https://twitter.com/unknowndomain/status/743801738830974976
https://twitter.com/unknowndomain/status/743818889268690944
https://www.instagram.com/p/BGwftR0Cn-N/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BGwniIrinzg/
Nice!
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I’d love a job where I got paid to do that…
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Video Selector v2
This is the second generation of video selector. It makes it possible for the exhibition audience to directly select videos in an exhibition show reel, avoiding the need to wait for films to come back round.
This time 16 white LED arcade buttons were wired up to an Arduino Mega, that interfaced with Node.js, Express and Socket.io to play back videos in a web browser.
Pressing a button selects the corresponding video, the other buttons go dark and the video plays to the end. At the end the video returns to the attract mode where a short 30 second segment is played silently in a grid to reflect the pattern of the buttons.
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Solar Age
Space was the theme of the Science Museum winter 2015 late opening event. London College of Communication student Tina Rashidi wanted to contextualise the orbit duration of each planet by creating a calculator that would determine your age on each planet in the solar system.
Three rotary encoders connected to an Arduino calculate the date of birth of the user, this information is read by Node.js, and transferred to a web browser using Express and Socket.io. In the browser a formula converts the date of birth into your age in days on earth, as well as years on each planet.
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CCTV Printer
This project for London College of Communication student Louis Schreyer’s explores the realities of CCTV images in our constantly surveyed state.
A webcam captures still images at random intervals into memory, intentionally not storing to disk as it then formats the image for printing by a thermal printer. The project is powered by Node.js.
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Super nice.
I’d love to time-travel back with your video display to show it to people trying do similar, only, what 15 years ago. Such a different way of approaching the problem now.
Back then you’d have a load of video players ready to play and a video matrix all controlled by some system over serial.
Now a web browser.
video players!? i remember some craziness… but this is me getting distracted by a memory of a museum install that struck me in my yoof.
We still use Max MSP at work
SPIMEIO
Spimeio is a design fiction project by London College of Communication student Michel Erler, it explores a world in which every object is tagged and trackable with an extensive provenance database.
An RFID reader attached to an Arduino transmit card ID numbers read through the table on the marked reader area. Where Node.js searches a local database for this ID number sending the related information through Socket.io and Express to a web browser rendering the information on a small 7″ HDMI monitor connected to a Mac Mini inside the table.
