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Peripheral controls

Major studio 1 project @ Parsons School of Design, speculative design, 10/2020





As human beings, we are physically based in the physical world. Therefore we must rely on tangible controls/tools to get access to the digital world.

This set of designs aims to critically look at existing designed artifacts and their arbitrary connections to screens. To re-evaluate their significance as we move towards a post-screen era.

A zipper on trouser that controls sound volume A balance board that controls your cursor A crank that help you scroll pages A window blinds that controls the brightness of your screen




Process

-To acheive this tangible control, I played with using serial port to allow arduino communicate with the the browser server and then using p5.serialcontrol software to talk to p5.js.

Arduino -> P5.js communication:


Updates:
The zipper control has been selected into the 2022 Arduino Cloud Game Contest!