GMU:Computing with Thread/Part4

Connecting the Physical and the Virtual

Group Work

In the final part of the course we developed a group work for the Alte Staatsbank.

Read more about it on the microbank64 page.

What we have done

List of things we did, to make it work.

• got a small working room in the alte Staatsbank, where we can develop our artwork
• took pictures of the posters that outline the history of the Alte Staatsbank.
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• did experiments with the bullet proof Panzerglas
• drew customers, bank peoples, a robber and a security guy
• figured out how to set up the whole logic gate structure on paper
• prototyped mechanical switches for the lamps and investigated their wiring
• drew the dollhouse, pencil and digital version
• produced 80 pulley wheels
• decided for which signal refers to which room and which person
• asked if we can use the original 6 bit light system
• asked how the 6 bit light system worked in context
• finish the textile computing module
• created a processing framework to run the dollhouse
• create Drawings for the dollhouse
• created an arduino sketch to communicate between 6 bits of light and the dollhouse
• ordered electronics and mechanical parts for pulleys
• constructed a (safe) mechanism that allows peoples to interact with the structure
• created characters and sprite sheets
• adjusted the aesthetics + size of microbank and characters