Wasted Ocean is a 10 week collaborative project created for a Physical Computing class. The members of the group who created this are Sebastian Flor, Sri Krishnan Mukkur Jagannathan, Mario Badilla, Akash Agarwal, and I.
My role in the group was as the Processing programmer. I programmed the Kinect input and the visual and audio outputs linked to the Kinect, Arduino, and Twitter inputs.
From the video: Wasted Ocean is an interactive experience that creates awareness about pollution in the oceans, and how important recycling is to help solve this problem. When the user throws trash in the regular bin, garbage falls into the simulated ocean. But when the user recycles, corals grow on the bottom of the sea.
A screenshot of the clean oceanscape:
A screenshot of the polluted oceanscape:
A recording of the Twitter input in action:
Setup diagrams:
Lids of the trash and recycling bins:
