Windmill & Mobile Interaction Progress

Myself and Siobhán working on the windmill interaction.

Windmill Interaction from REplay on Vimeo.

Siobhán & Fodhla brainstorming and testing interaction designs

Fodhla, Niall, Alannagh & Siobhán, (Annie's behind the camera)

Design and technology for the butterfly interaction on the mobile.

Pendulum Design from REplay on Vimeo.

Fodhla & Siobhán

Something From Nothing

Alannagh came up with a new interaction. Below she is holding a hallow plastic tube with the wire frame of an old lamp at the top. She fed a wire up the tube and attached a push button to the top. The button will be embedded in the bud of a huge flower.

It may not look like much now, but wait and see, it will be awesome by Monday!

pink and gold, soon to be, flower petals

Annie

Mobile Interaction

Firstly I researched into fish and butterfly shapes. I then drew and cut them out on paper and cut the shapes from the canvas using the previous cut shapes as reference images.

Alannagh.

I recycled the thick square card from an old project. It is the perfect size for the mobile interactions to hang from. I know we were going to use wood but we can reinforce the piece with wood for the exhibition. I picked this instead as it is easy to work with and attach the wool. I have already started hanging the wool from this main board.

 Mock designs of the hanging mobile interactions

Prototype Design of Microphone Interaction

paper flower bed lights

sketch of design for microphone interaction

Fab don't you think?

Alannagh.

Wall Projection

Early mock screen projection on wall.

Alannagh.

Mock Screen Designs

Graphics by Alannagh

Sea Meets Sky

This is a mock-up demo of a mobile that will hang in our exhibition space. The actual mobile will be a wooden structure measuring approx. 1½ x 2½ feet.

The mobile will have three interactive elements hanging among strings of yarn. They will be in the shape of a butterfly, a star and a fish ...I have yet to make them... and they will work as a pendulum; the swinging arm will complete the circuit in our technical design. To make the elements sturdy the shapes will be cut from plastic canvas. Plastic canvas is perfect material for this because it won't curl like knitted shapes do, and a flat surface is crucial to the pendulum design.

To see an example of cross-stitch on plastic canvas click here.

The butterfly, star and fish elements will allow the user to control our project as an alternative to using a keyboard and mouse. We will make them quite decorative and beautiful with crochet designs in sparkly muted coloured yarns.

Sky Meets Sea from rePLAY on Vimeo.

Water droplets, waves, and clouds; sky meets sea.

the mobile mock-up

luxurious popcorn wool for the mobile

Annie.

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Exhibition Room Layout

Mock Ups by Alannagh

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