Counterproductive prop-making breakdown
About the project︎︎︎
Code︎︎︎
We customized the props’ functions to gain full control to have a better result in the film. Domestic devices are given personalities, brought to life by the crew who controlled them.Lamp: A tiny robotic arm with two servos controlled by a PS4 controller, driven by an ESP32 chip. Lighting color/brightness is fully controllable and customizable.
Kettle: Remote lighting and movement control through Bluetooth / wifi.
Toaster: Using fadecandy to map the spectrum of the volume as the output on LED strips. customized user interface for other shapes(happy/sad faces)
The next step was to solder them to have a stable circuit that could last the entire shooting.
Credits: Fadecandy tutorial by Amy Goodchild, Dabble, Blynk, PS4-esp32. Thanks to the great open-source community.
Some other robots we built before.
Project Salty 2.0 is From a Mirobot Workshop.
Drawing machine Pablo1, Pablo2 were built during the research for project Lost in Translation.
They helped with the prop building for our final project.
Project Salty 2.0 is From a Mirobot Workshop.
Drawing machine Pablo1, Pablo2 were built during the research for project Lost in Translation.
They helped with the prop building for our final project.
