April 24, 2012

RESPONSIVE NCRC Evan Kerrigan & Munaf Assaf // SI 791

OVERVIEW

‣ Background

‣ Signals

‣ Concept

‣ Equipment

‣ Prototype

‣ Plan of Action

BACKGROUND

‣ Project Scope• Design and prototype a responsive, collaborative workspace for the University of

Michigan’s new NCRC facility in partnership with fabrication students and faculty in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

‣ “Honest Signals” Framework• Activity

• Consistency

• Influence

• Mimicry

SIGNALS

‣ Human• Motion

• Speech

‣ Environmental• Electromagnetic Fields

• Light

• Temperature

CONCEPT

‣ Measuring Collaborative “Energy”• Motion

• Speech

‣ Honest Signals Visualized• Activity

• Consistency

• Influence (?)

CONCEPT

EQUIPMENT

‣ Arduino Processor

‣ Infrared grid network (Dozen nodes)

‣ LEDs

‣ Microphone grid network (Dozen nodes)

‣ Projector

‣ Wires

PROTOTYPE DIAGRAM

PLAN OF ACTION

‣ Purchase minimal equipment

‣ Adapt code from existing Arduino musical visualizations (e.g., Instructables)

‣ Adapt musical visualization to react to both IR sensors & microphones

‣ Collaborate with Architecture School to develop a fabrication strategy