Interaction Design 2021
In Interaction Design 2, we worked on combining an artistic installation with a practical use. Our aim was to conceive and design an interactive light installation for the new THU building. This project should not only offer a high visual appeal, but also display the university's energy data. We decided to develop an Infinity Dodecahedron - a semi-transparent object that creates "infinite" reflections using controllable LEDs. The particular challenge here was to combine the handcrafted production with the hardware control using Arduino and Raspberry Pi. In addition, a dynamic website was designed and set up that reads energy data from a database and visualizes it appropriately using diagrams and colour coding.
For this implementation, we dealt with the backend - MySql, server structures and PHP - as well as with the frontend code (HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript). We also had to learn how to program the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi. The final implementation as a prototype can therefore be completely adapted for a final implementation.
Sarah Gazso, Elena Kleinpass, Josephine Knehr, Nathalie Kuch
Prof. Gerbaulet