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Interactive Elements

The Soap as a Prob

The Soap as a symbol stands for innocence, abundance and cleanliness. Our task was to impliment these in our design for soap. We decided to have a transparent case out of a lot of small bubbles, like Foam. Foam like the foam you have in bath tub, during washing up or cleaning your hands. Inside the transparent case we have a smaller white case which has an led string in it.seife1

The LED string is arranged in circles in the smaller case. The case outside and the cae inside fits into each other. So its stabil. The technique for example: Arduino, Battery, Distance Sensor or all cables are inside of a top which is fixed with velcro on the smaller case. This top is filled with foam.

The foam has holes where the technique fits and sits.seife3seife4

The best part of this soap is the bubble gun inside. The Bubble gun was hacked and now we are able to controll how and when the bubble gun make bubbles. In both cases (smaller and bigger one) are a big hole, where the bubbles come out. The Bubbles Gun is controlled by the ardunio and the distance sensor. If you „touch“ the distance sensor in range of 5-35 cm the sensor will trigger the bubble gun and the LEDS. The LEDS shine in a colour concept of blue, white, turquois and mixture between them.seife2

Design

Soapy Shape of Soap

Soapy Heart of Soap
Soapy Storyboard of Soap

„Djamel and Marie will make the soap.“

Puh okay, challenge accepted! was the first impression.

How a soap could look like, everybody knows. There are so many different formes of soaps, it could be a star, a heart, a angel in a moon. Everything.

So how we could define our soap?

First we talked about what a Soap should emanate in our Theater and whats the basic value of a soap. A Soap stands for Purity, innocence and in the old time affluence.

We thought about a soap dispenser, which we can fill with some liquid and leds

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The Liquid could scatter the light of the leds perfectly. But because of the shape we dont like we want to think about another ideas. The next idea was a breathing Soap. The soap should interactive react with getting bigger and smaller. We thought about a Wonderball, and also the form.. We had to find another solution for the shape, we couldnt copy the wonderball shape. We really liked this idea, but it was too heavy too build and develop this for us in this time.

After this breathing thing, we want something who can also do something visual.

Out of a conversation the idea with a soapbubblegun has begun.

For the shape we thought about a lot of small bubbels out of plastik with a case of transparent textil.

It should look like a big bubble out of small bubbles.

With this idea we came to our current idea. It is easier to deep drawe a form which look like our imagination, then make a lot of small bubbles.

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So we made out of putty and a stainless steel bowl our form, which look like a big part of foam.Foto 1Foto 2

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There were some problems pulling the putty out of our form, because the putty also melted. But now we have our finish form for the case of soap

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Inside we have a white styrofoam bowl, which is easier to handle with the technical parts.

You can easiely put some led on it or make a whole with heat in it.

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The soapbubblegun will make bubbles hopefully directly in the air, If it will not work it will make bubbles to the left or to the right side.