Analog Light
How will human beings in the future feel the sense of touch when almost everything around us becomes virtual?
This project wants to go back to the time when appliances around us have to be touched or controlled with our hands, in order to make audience aware of the things they touch and spend more time with what they see at that moment. “Analog Light” encourages audience to use their hands to solve simple puzzles by adjusting a set of digits to match another one. The sense of touch they feel with their hands will make them aware of the present moment and may make them spend some time exploring their thoughts while finding the way to turn on the light.
Analog Light from witaya junma on Vimeo.
“Analog Light” goes back to the period when we still have to use our hands to control appliances through analog controllers. This project would make audience push, pull, insert, twist, and slide different types of controllers to explore and find the way to turn on the light bulb. Any changes affected by their hands will be interpreted into digits. The user has to adjust the controllers until the last two digits on the seven-segment display match the first two. When they match, the motor will be activated to vibrate to give the user a signal that the puzzle is solved. Then the light bulb will be turned on. Two cubes can also be connected using a cable to make it more difficult. Both cubes must be solved in order to turn on the lights. This make the user focus on interacting via the sense of touch and truly aware of what he/she is doing at all times.
Three 20x20x20 cm clear acrylic cubes, 1.5 kg each.
Cube #1 consists of toggle switches, an LED light bulb, a relay, a seven-segment display, a motor, electric wires, and an Arduino board.
Cube #2 consists of banana jacks, an LED light bulb, a relay, a seven-segment display, a motor, electric wires, and an Arduino board.
Cube #3 consists of potentiometers, slide potentiometers, an LED light bulb, a relay, a seven-segment display, a motor, electric wires, and an Arduino board.
Cube #1 consists of toggle switches, an LED light bulb, a relay, a seven-segment display, a motor, electric wires, and an Arduino board.
Cube #2 consists of banana jacks, an LED light bulb, a relay, a seven-segment display, a motor, electric wires, and an Arduino board.
Cube #3 consists of potentiometers, slide potentiometers, an LED light bulb, a relay, a seven-segment display, a motor, electric wires, and an Arduino board.