Interactive spaces is a conceptual installation based on kinematics. It is an exploration towards making the spaces around us responsive and interactive. This is a non academic self-initiated project, initiated in the first week of March 2018, and is still in progress.
The setup contains a grid of 196 cups hung from a ceiling. which has 3 individually controlled rows that can form waves on their own.
The users will be able to control the three waves separately using hand gestures.
Each wave will have a separate control motor, and each motor responds to its own ultrasonic sensor which records the gesture and sends command to the motor through an Arduino.
This was the design as visualized using a 3D model. The three rows were indiviatially controlled using a ring, which has the strings from all the cups terminating at a single point. That point was rotated using a motor.
The creating of the model was not an easy task with, unexpected challenges always coming up our way. We did a lot of experimentation with different motors and cup configurations. Got tangled in fishnet wire, and had the model fall on us while we were fixing the cups from below :)
And we tested the first row when it was created.
It took us 2 days of non-stop working, without any sleep to reach this point. We have smooth motion on all the three waves, while we have started working on the technical bits of addressing the motor power and programming the animations.
Keep coming back to this section for updates and progress on the project
Thank you
