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» How big is a chicken? | |||
How big is a tree? | How big is a tree? | ||
How big is your love for pop music? | How big is your love for pop music? | ||
And how big is your trust in yourself? | And how big is your trust in yourself? « | ||
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When I open my hands as much as I can to both sides of my body – like a child spreading its arms untill it can’t any further, sayling: „Look, this is how big is an elephant!“ – I try to measure my surrounding: I am trying to depict a size of something that is there – but may not there in a touchable way– and I will try to show its dimensions with the means of my body. | When I open my hands as much as I can to both sides of my body – like a child spreading its arms untill it can’t any further, sayling: „Look, this is how big is an elephant!“ – I try to measure my surrounding: I am trying to depict a size of something that is there – but may not there in a touchable way– and I will try to show its dimensions with the means of my body. | ||
Musing about distances (– from here, to there… | Musing about distances (– from here, to there… from my one hand, to the other hand… ) and then thinking about the size of things and how hard they are sometimes to percieve esp. when far away or largely sized, I quickly realized that I would like to find a way to translate such terms like meters and centimeters (– the metric system: a measuring system we used to learn, yet, often so intangible) into terms that might be more abstract but still emotionally close to us: sounds. | ||
How does size sound like? | |||
How do dimensions sound like? | How do dimensions sound like? | ||
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IDEA / CONCEPT | IDEA / CONCEPT + USAGE | ||
The gloves are equipped with an IR-distance sensor, that can sense and measure the gap between one hand and the other. | The gloves are equipped with an IR-distance sensor, that can sense and measure the gap between one hand and the other. | ||
These date will be translated via Processing into sound: The wider the distance, the higher the sound. The other way round: very small distance sounds very low. | These date will be translated via the programming language Processing into sound: The wider the distance, the higher the sound. The other way round: very small distance sounds very low. | ||
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(USAGE) | (USAGE) | ||
By joining the middle fingers of both of your hands, you ‚activate‘ the gloves (in a metaphorical way) and by that initiate the process of measuring: | |||
an LED-light switches on, and a short vibration indicates the start of the measuring. | |||
By joining the middle fingers of both of your hands, you | |||
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Throughout the whole measuring process, sounds according to your hands position will be heard. | |||
By joining the middle fingers again, the process will be stopped. // | |||
electronical SPECS: | |||
– IR - infrared - sensor | |||
– reed-switch + magnet | |||
– LED | |||
– small vibration motor | |||
– gloves, cables, tape, and glue. | |||
// So! …. | // So! …. | ||