[ELECTRON] Underpass lighting project query

[Martin McGrath]

"got any good links?"

See:
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

and

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Gallery

For further information and a list of who is doing what with the Kinect.
I'm sure searching google will provide more links, in addition to the
monitoring the usual sources (makezine, hackaday).

Martin

On 29 November 2010 15:19, Roy Mohan Shearer <fy81le at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for all your replies so far, will have a good look at them all
> tomorrow.
>
> re: lights stalking you, that is a good point Andrew! Our initial
> thought was that it would be reassuring to have a sense of the space
> being 'aware' of your presence, and having some forewarning of other
> peoples' presence might be useful. But it is something we would have
> to consider carefully if we go down this route. I find these kind of
> problems really interesting in that there is a quality to how things
> are programmed ('aesthetic programming' perhaps?) that can make the
> difference between an idea like this being friendly or just being
> really spooky. Hence looking for a skilled coder!
>
> re: OpenKinect, Kenny - would love to, but doubt it's quite right for
> this project! Anyone here got anything to share in the world of
> OpenKinect, got one, hacked one, got any good links?
> I came across this interesting summary of various initial hacks:
>
> http://www.creativeapplications.net/maxmsp/kinect-one-week-later-processing-of-cinder-maxmsp/
>
>
> On 27 November 2010 14:40, Andrew Back <andy at smokebelch.org> wrote:
> > Hi Roy,
> >
> > On (14:54 26/11/10), Roy Mohan Shearer wrote:
> >
> >> We are proposing a row of colour-changing spotlights downlighting the
> >> walls of the underpass, with sensors along the length of the underpass
> >> that will track individuals' movements through the underpass. The
> >> effect that we're going for is that as each individual enters the
> >> underpass, the spotlights increase in intensity and a colour is
> >> assigned to that person which accompanies them as they walk through.
> >> In addition to this there will be a constant level of white uplighting
> >> illuminating the ceiling of the underpass. The underpass is 16m long x
> >> 6m wide x 3 m high.
> >
> > Just a thought, but couldn't this be a little disconcerting at night?
> It's
> > dark, late and as you hurry through an underpass alone a light stalks
> you...
> >
> >> The main issues I predict for the designer are longevity (this being a
> >> permanent installation), and designing a system that can reliability
> >> differentiate between users. I have some experience with using picaxe
> >> and arduino for prototyping but am unsure as to whether this method
> >> could be made robust enough for a permanent installation on this
> >> scale, and if so who could do it for us. Does anyone here have any
> >> experience of builiding something on this scale, or can perhaps
> >> suggest a local individual or company whom we could contact?
> >
> > I can't see why the Arduino wouldn't be reliable enough. I know of at
> least
> > one mass market product out there which was prototyped on an arduino and
> > then the production unit is basically a custom Arduino board. If it would
> > suffice I'd be tempted to use an Arduino Nano as they can easily be
> > socketed, making repairs and maintenance (e.g. firmware upgrade) easier.
> >
> > If doing anything more than very simple processing and the Arduino won't
> cut
> > it you might want to look at something like the Pandaboard:
> >
> >  http://pandaboard.org
> >
> > It's cheap, small, fairly powerful, runs Linux and is perfect for
> embedded
> > applications. It also has some sort of camera interface.
> >
> > A good place to go for further advice might be the RS Components
> community
> > site, DesignSpark:
> >
> >  http://designspark.com
> >
> > They have an 'Ask an Engineer' section...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Back
> > a at smokebelch.org
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > members mailing list
> > members at electronclub.org
> > http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members
> >
> > Instructions for changing your mailing list settings:
> > http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> members mailing list
> members at electronclub.org
> http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members
>
> Instructions for changing your mailing list settings:
> http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20101129/60ea982c/attachment-0001.htm>