Sunday, 17 November 2013

Up scalling

The touch less motion tracker that I am going to be implementing into my design at the moment is a 12" by 12" three sided box, through through some research I have found that many people believe this could be made much bigger, or used in a different way.

Some recommendations from digital artist Kyle MacDonald are:


  • Build massive sensors
  • Optimize the resistors and code for things that vibrate quickly, and use it as a pickup/microphone
  • There are probably other tricks for decoupling the system from AC hum (a huge capacitor beteween the plates and the ground?)
  • I've experimented with shielding the plates on the bottom, but it only seems to cause problems
  • Make an RGB or HSB color picker
  • Control video or music parameters; sequence a beat or melody
  • Large, slightly bent surface with multiple plates + a projector = "Minority Report" interface
So who knows how big this could become, I am going to continue experimenting, and once a prototype has been built, look into making the project bigger, or as mentioned in project meetings, the size of a whole room? I believe that capturing a person moving around, rather than just their hand, could change the project into a more interactive experience, that allows users to be active with technology, rather than just using it?


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