As a creative outlet, I keep a visual journal consisting of collages the reader can somehow interact with.
For this project I want to play and enhance this idea of interactivity by creating a joystick-like device so the user can play with the illustrations just as they would if they had the journal in their hands
This is an on-going project, currently in standby due to the Covid-19 lockdowns and the incapability to work at the Fab Lab. However, I was able to put together a working prototype from home that I will keep developing once the workshop is up and running again.
I programmed the controller to read the accelerometer data on an Arduino IoT; a force sensor and a light dependent resistor function as buttons. Several Neopixels LED lights and a vibrator motor are the outputs in the controller.
I wrote a program in Processing to read the data from the device and by mapping the readings from the sensors, the animations are triggered.
Then I took one of the collages and created a series of animations frame by frame on Photophop. Later on Processing I mapped the animations to the different readings coming from the prototype' sensors.
Original Collage Animated on Proccessing and the Controller
Then I decided to have fun with it and wrote a interactive little game to play with the joystick!
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