Movie Taster
Course: Physical Computing
Visiting Faculty: Massimo Banzi & Gwendolyn Floyd.
Duration: 2 weeks
Team: Ane Eline Sørensen, Siddharth Muthyala, Kevin Cannon
Role: Concept generation, Arduino, flash design & programming
The MovieTaster project was created at the end of a two week workshop in Physical Computing. A crash course in electronics, Arduino and physical interfaces taught by Massimo Banzi and Gwendolyn Floyd. The brief was to take two household objects and see what would happen if you connected them.
The MovieTaster is a fun take on lonely movie nights. The project revolves around the notion that it is possible for one to watch a certain type of film just by eating - or cooking, a certain type of food.
Say for example you come home from a long day at work, or its just that kind of lazy Sunday. You decide to order Pizza and when it arrives, you reach to your spice rack and sprinkle some chilli flakes and some oregano, MovieTaster will of course line up the best selection of Italinesque hyper-action films!
Last but certainly not least, the MovieTaster also sets the mood by choosing the lighting in the kitchen and in the room according to the spices you use. This also acts as a visual ambient indicator to the spice that you may currently be using.
In the kitchen you go about your normal cooking routine using all the spices you need. And when you’re done the MovieTaster will compile a great list of movies to watch depending on the spices you have used.
Each spice bottle has a tiny sensor that triggers a sequence of numbers - typically a simple code of 1’s and 0’s. Each sequence corresponds to a certain film genre in the library. When the act of cooking is done, the sequence is complied and a movie is queued on your TV, ready to watch. The user can then decide to watch the particular film or browse for other choices.
In this particular case we restricted our choices to 4 spices and therefore 16 movies, each corresponding to 0000, 0001, 0011, and so on.
Last but certainly not least, MovieTaster also sets the mood by choosing the lighting in the kitchen and in the room according to the spices you use. This is done via some halogen bulbs and a DMX shield for the Arduino.
Go on, make your day.
Project Team: Siddharth Muthyala, Ane Eline Sørensen, Kevin Cannon
Visiting Faculty: Massimo Banzi & Gwendolyn Floyd.
Duration: 2 weeks
Team: Ane Eline Sørensen, Siddharth Muthyala, Kevin Cannon
Role: Concept generation, Arduino, flash design & programming
Background
The MovieTaster project was created at the end of a two week workshop in Physical Computing. A crash course in electronics, Arduino and physical interfaces taught by Massimo Banzi and Gwendolyn Floyd. The brief was to take two household objects and see what would happen if you connected them.
What is it?
The MovieTaster is a fun take on lonely movie nights. The project revolves around the notion that it is possible for one to watch a certain type of film just by eating - or cooking, a certain type of food.
Say for example you come home from a long day at work, or its just that kind of lazy Sunday. You decide to order Pizza and when it arrives, you reach to your spice rack and sprinkle some chilli flakes and some oregano, MovieTaster will of course line up the best selection of Italinesque hyper-action films!
Last but certainly not least, the MovieTaster also sets the mood by choosing the lighting in the kitchen and in the room according to the spices you use. This also acts as a visual ambient indicator to the spice that you may currently be using.
How does it work?
In the kitchen you go about your normal cooking routine using all the spices you need. And when you’re done the MovieTaster will compile a great list of movies to watch depending on the spices you have used.
Each spice bottle has a tiny sensor that triggers a sequence of numbers - typically a simple code of 1’s and 0’s. Each sequence corresponds to a certain film genre in the library. When the act of cooking is done, the sequence is complied and a movie is queued on your TV, ready to watch. The user can then decide to watch the particular film or browse for other choices.
In this particular case we restricted our choices to 4 spices and therefore 16 movies, each corresponding to 0000, 0001, 0011, and so on.
Last but certainly not least, MovieTaster also sets the mood by choosing the lighting in the kitchen and in the room according to the spices you use. This is done via some halogen bulbs and a DMX shield for the Arduino.
Go on, make your day.
Slideshow of the process
Test video of the DMX lighting
Project Team: Siddharth Muthyala, Ane Eline Sørensen, Kevin Cannon