Geert Roumen
ABSTRACT
Mapping values is part of the craftmanship of tangible interaction design. It is easy to imagine but hard to put in words and even harder to code. This swatch presents ways that might allow us to move faster from idea to experience. Through direct manipulation the experience becomes some sort of ‘clay’ that we can experience and manipulate simultaneously. This is done by using pixels to control the physical world and allows the use of software in the graphical domain to be used in the physical computing domain.
MATERIALS
Neopixel module, plack plexiglass, semi transparent white plexiglass, cables, Arduino nano
TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
Soldering iron, After Effects, Arduino IDEProcessing IDE, curiousity
LINK
http://geertroumen.com/teiswatch
VIDEO
JURY STATEMENT
In the context of a swatchbook this idea is unexpectedly inspiring. Though I doubt it was the authors intent, this submission feels somewhat like an inversion/subversion of the swatchbook theme of making a tangible crafted object, rather it offers an intangible yet conceptually well crafted idea which seems to invite the reader to create the swatch themselves.