[ELECTRON] Underpass lighting project query

[M.Hersh]

I did not see this before, but would find an underpass with this type of 
lighting totally inaccessible and would not be able to use it.
Marion

On 29/11/2010 15:19, Roy Mohan Shearer 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
>>
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