2014-09-05

Group 2 – Memento Mori

Upplagd av Andreas

by  Claire Kearney-Volpe, Sam Lavigne


Memento mori process from Sam Lavigne on Vimeo.


The interaction
The user presses a button to open the wooden box, which then prints out a unique highly specific fortune for the user.


The materials
Wooden box, servomechanism, thermal printer.


The implementation
Fortunes are created on the base of New York Times obituaries and stored directly on an Arduino microcontroller. When a users pushes the button, the servo motor opens the box and a random (no! highly specific!) fortune is selected and printed with the thermal printer. The wooden box will be closed after users tear off the fortune automatically.


Our motivation
Based mainly on natural materials (wood). Nice way to hide technology. Also interesting with a portable printer (printers of today can be small and perhaps wearable). Simple interaction with just one button.
A creepy project that stands out…



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