In the future the lamp is not only for lighting the environment, but also for creating personalized environment. The lamp has human's mind. It is just like a buster who likes to explore the world and hear stories. They can learn stories by themselves from internet and narrate that stories to users through the environment they created.
Michael Glen
Isabella Cruz Chong
Cihang Yang
Peiying Feng
We speculate a distant future in which humans have transcended beyond the physical form of the body, though are yet to transcend the materiality of time and space. As such they exist as arrangements of information, in the form of energy suspended in an electromagnetic substrate. These post-human energy beings communicate via pulses of light between each other.
Group Member: Binna, Taylor, Max
CONCEPT:
It’s post apocalyptic world. Human are reconstructing the planet. Chaos is everywhere, and the only thing keeping society in order are the strict laws and the “enforcers” who regulate them. Still recovering from the global collapse of 2200, the “enforcers” are equip with low-tech tools to do their job.
Law-Enforcer’s Equipments:
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Look and Feel:
Leather, Metal, Grunge, Distress, Severe, Red Accents
MOOD BOARD:
COLOR BOARD:
I used a HumanCircuit to create this lamp.
The idea was when you touches Lennon’s nose using your nose, he lights up.
He looks cool sitting on my night stand.
For my AT Tiny Project, I created a crown in which a light would go on when it sensed a person directly in front of it.
I was able to get the capacitive touch sensor working. See video below:
But I wasn’t able to get the AT Tiny programmed. I had it set up like this:
This was the crown I made to use with the AT Tiny…
LAMP HAT
I use head as a switch button for turning on/off, every time someone put this hat on the it will light up. You can wear this hat at night and day time. When you need the light at night you just put the hat on then you will see the light. I use LED strip rap around this hat where it connect to the circuit inside the hat.
HOW TO:
Download the zip file. Place in it your Arduino folder (probably in your Documents folder) and unzip it:
GETTING STARTED:
Here is the VERY HELPFUL getting started tutorial for working with the ATtiny.
INCLUDED:
Code and schematics for each
Capacitive Sensing
1) CapSense_Arduino_with_LED
Use this with Arduino
2) CapSense_ATTiny
Use this with the ATtiny
3) CapSense_ATTiny_SoftwareSerial
Use this to read sensor values from ATtiny. Here is a helpful tutorial.
Human Circuit
1) HumanCircuit_with_Arduino_LED
Use this with Arduino. Can adapt to ATtiny
2) Touch_ATtiny_Mellis
Use this with ATtiny. Has been finicky for some. Here is the documentation.
Other inspiration:
United MicroKingdoms
Little Sun Charge
Repurpose
Luminaid
You have been commissioned to create a piece for an exhibition entitled [Light/Dark].
From myths of making fire to harnessing the flame with wax to electrical incandescence, the presence of light impacts our daily lives in a functional, metaphorical, and aesthetic way.
APPROACH
One possible methodology
Step 1: Imagine a possible or plausible future 400 years from now. Who will we be? What values will we hold? What everyday objects will we use? How will we communicate? How will we dress? How will we work? What is our currency? How does it make you FEEL?
Step 2: Brainstorm your light object within the context of your future.
Step 3: Write a narrative that contextualizes your light object that addresses the questions in step 2.
Step 4: Construct a prototype of your light object. Be ready to explain where it is in it’s evolution.
DELIVERABLES
> Physical prototype
> Description of your future (no less than two paragraphs, no more than two pages)
> Proof of concept video or images (show us how it works in context – not just documentation)
> Description of your piece for the exhibition (shortened version of the above description)
> Documentation on Instructables
DUE DATES
Tuesday October 27 – Concept + Prototypes
Friday October 30 – Exhibition description due
Tuesday November 3 – Final prototypes + Narrative + Exhibition
Tuesday November 10 – All documentation up (Must be in Instructables format)
RULES
1) Be critical.
2) Be playful.
3) Be human.
4) Tell stories.
5) Have fun.
More inspiration coming soon…
A book lamp that turns on when one sits down and puts their forearms in the armchairs.
MATERIALS
– copper fabric
– conductive thread
– copper tape
– 3V battery
– LED
– solder
– ATtiny45 (human circuit code)
PROCESS
ATtiny + capacitive sensing code w/reset
ATtiny + human circuit code (for some reason it was working just touching one wire and once I built the soft circuit for it, I had to touch the two wires in order to get it to work). This is the one I ended up using for the book lamp.