e-paper: Lesson 3

First of all:

Here is the download file:
http://www.contrechoc.com/crosslab/e_paper_workshop.zip

We will do a Processing session, explaining the download.
Then we will pick one/two sounds, and make a switching button like the one in the instructable:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Hack-that-holy-USB-cable/
(more than 9000 visitors in one week, wow!)

see the Heidegger switch button:

And this button will produce two sounds, one for each side...

How will the button trigger the sounds?

We use a hacked keyboard for this:

This was a keyboard, you can use any USB keyboard to get the chip out.....

Here you see the chip, and this can be made in a base for a button

We have attached already some stuff....the things are not soooooo well "designed" yet, more important is that we don't destroy the wire connections.......

technical things to consider: which keystroke is coming in? Use textdit to find out.....

then you have to replace the coded key by this new keystroke....

design things to consider:

how is the paper button related to the sound?

what is the effect of the action, (hand contribution?)

how is this related to "more than design?" (see www.designprijs.nl )

how can we influence society with our interactive device? :-)

resulting in ......