Bloom mimics your hand gesture to weave a hypnotic movement in the origami flowers as a kinetic response. Interact with Bloom by placing one hand parallel to the origami flower. Use ‘open’ and ‘close’ hand gestures to stimulate a response. For a seamless interaction, wait for a few seconds before changing hand gestures.
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Team: Awanee Joshi, Leah How, Roshel Chawla, Sukky Yan
Instructors: Eric Forman, Bruno Kruse, Carrie Kengel
Course: Physical Computing & Logic of Interaction
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Conceptual Drawings
From our inspirations, we managed to create a concept drawing that stayed true to our vision. Initially, we were looking to have the amount of people as the input of the installation. However, after multiple rounds of ideation, we decided that it’ll be best to have our input as a single individual’s hand gesture.
Materials: 4 Fitec Servo Motors, 2 18x24 white acrylic sheets, 1 Nextigo web camera, 2 Metal L stand, 8 flat head screws, 24 bolts, LED strip, 1 MDF board, 1 wooden box, 1 arduino board, 1 breadboard, and 2 18x24 paper sheets.
Programs: Arduino program, P5.js, and Handtrack.js
Development
The development phase was divided into three phases: creating the origami structure, modifying
vision which was then connected to Arduino code using two-way serial communication. We also created the installation structure from ground up.
Final Output
