Hello everyone!
I'm completely new to this forum and Arduino and programming/coding and everything
so please forgive me if I don't explain something properly!
Basically I really need help for a project i'm working on at uni.
I want to create a wall installation where you touch a specific object or part of the wall and it triggers a projection of an animation around it.
Pretty much similar to this video: Storytelling through playful interactions on Vimeo
Would anybody happen to know how I would be able to make this, what components I need to buy and the coding involved etc?
Literally you would be my hero if you help me out haha, i've been trying to understand everything but there is a lot involved and a deadline soon approaching and would still love to learn how to make this, thanks!
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This is not a project for a beginner! Even a seasoned professional would take a lot of work to get this done. Notice the number of people working on it and the electronics required.
Wanted to simplify and have basic touch sensors (aluminium plate) and light up an area with LEDs then that is possible.
Weedpharma
Yes weedpharma is spot on, projection mapping, as it is called, is a very very advanced project and is way beyond the reach of an Arduino. The process has two components, a touch sensor built into the wall and a computer or lap top running animation into a data projector.
This board touch board is an Arduino and built in capacitave sensors. With it you can do things like trigger the playing of sound files when things are touched. Maybe you could adapt your expectations down to this.
However, you can also use this board to send signals back to a lap top to control software you write on it. That could be animations.
I'm completely new to this forum and Arduino and programming/coding and everything
But given that level of experience anything remotely resembling that video is out of the question. Maybe you could collaborate with a University department in Electronics and Computing.
weedpharma:
This is not a project for a beginner! Even a seasoned professional would take a lot of work to get this done. Notice the number of people working on it and the electronics required.
Weedpharma
Grumpy_Mike:
But given that level of experience anything remotely resembling that video is out of the question. Maybe you could collaborate with a University department in Electronics and Computing.
Thanks for trying to help guys, I did realise it would be quite a lot of work but I didn't know the extent of it, would there maybe be a simpler version of this project then?
Maybe something like having drawings using conductive paint, and when each drawing is touched a projection of an animation appears?
And maybe not have a huge wall installation, instead just a decent sized board that I can connect everything to behind it?
I was only thinking of doing like 4 animations so it would've have been as big of a scale as that video I showed, that was only an example of the concept.
There are two projects in one here. First you have to design your project and let the design match what you can do. But more importantly you have to acquire the skills to allow you to do this.
What sort of time scale are we talking about here? What is your skill set? Design, computer science engineering? Would it be acceptable to "contract out" some of the implementation if the main point of your course is design? I have a friend who is very skilled in this sort of thing but unlike me he has to make a living out of it.