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Brendan Matkin

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OH!

OH! is a sculpture/controller for the lights on the geodesic dome at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver, Canada. The controller has 240 embedded sensors which communicate with science world remotely. It is wireless and battery operated. I worked on this as part of my role at Tangible.

I did R&D and interaction design on this project. I prototyped the behaviour and evaluated several potential sensing and communication technologies. I designed the sensors and coordinated their manufacture. I also coordinated another (super talented) developer to build the server-side things and worked with him to get it talking to the dome. 

Here is a demo video of the project, and several images of prototyping and development. 

geolight_firstProtos.jpg
geolight_guts0.1.jpg
geolight_guts.jpg
geolight_cardboardSensors.jpg
geolight_metalDomeInProgress.jpg
geolight_iceCreamDome.jpg
geolight_protoPCBv1.jpg
geolight_bareSensors.jpg
geolight_droneArmy.jpg
geolight_actualSensorInstall.jpg