Photos & connections
Take a photo, make a connection...
Preliminary setup and instructions.
A photo booth that encourages people to take photos of themselves with others. By touching tags to a number of interaction points (perhaps 3 or 4) a photo is taken, a connection is made, and profile pictures are added to the picnic website.
Writeup here: www.nearfield.org/2008/08/picnic-rfid-photo-booth
Some physical design iterations.
Some instructions.
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A use-case and technical requirements. Red means we need help!
Plan B: if the construction of the box is too complex, we can wall-mount the camera/interaction points and lights alongside a screen.
If anyone was wondering if it was buildable...
Outside Instructions
- Invite your friends (the more the merrier)
- Adjust your hair
- Wave your tags / badges on the red spot
- Smile
Inside Instructions
- Place all your tags / badges here
Flickr
We want to send the photos to a Flickr username and pool, tagged with people's names so that we can use Flickr as a image-repository, create visualisations, slideshows etc.
Open questions
What kind of camera? A digital stills camera would be good, perhaps using capture: capture.sourceforge.net/ If we need to use a webcam something like this: astore.amazon.com/eyejot-20/detail/B000O0M5EA
What does the soft-box look like?
Location?
Lighting? Ring-flash
Programming - RFID:API
Using the fablab to cut vinyl letters/icons on Wednesday?
Technical stuff
Two Macbooks
Two screens
Two to four RFID readers
USB cables
Hub?
Webcam: Creative Live! Cam Optia AF From Creative Labs: astore.amazon.com/eyejot-20/detail/B000O0M5EA
Physical stuff needed
MDF sheets 12mm
2x4 structure and brackets
Fake grass or upholstery
Torx screws
Torx bit
Drill-set
Circular saw?
Powerful drill
Sparkel
Sandpaper
Paint
Rollers
Staple-gun
Rope-light or fluorescent lights or bulbs+ fittings or switch and relay
Mirror
4 comments
fab?
cut the surface at the fab lab on the laser, out of ply or board?
chimera
what about adding a chimeric element inside this database/pictures?
sometimes a non material figure appears in the pictures, a shadow without reference, a layer of non-existence.
with this level of entropy we start visualizing how subtile is the difference between existing entity and described entity ...
according to mythology, a chimera is a monstrous creature made of parts of multiple animals.
a way to implement this could be collecting characteristic from different pictures/faces, and combine them in a way that every 'n' real persons making the pictures, the software generates the image of a non-existing identity. the ambiguity of google can help to forge generic names linked to thousands stories and none.
a way to surpass the gap of control is privacy. another way is the proliferation of redundant information.
Existing Flash thingie
(I can't edit the page so I will just put it in a comment:) I just heard there is an existing Flash application made within Mediamatic that will take a picture with a webcam and upload it to the server. It might be wise to re-use it.
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