Interactive Toy – Learning Arduino

Knurr is an interactive toy with sound for children, designed by Tonje and myself. He has a treasure room in his mouth where you can hide your favorite things or secrets and he will look after them. If you know the secret code he knows you’re his friend and he will give you a happy sound. If not he will let you know you’re not welcome. Knurr comes with a tag as packaging. With this tag you get the secret code.The code is in Knurr’s mouth. His happy sound let you know he has recognised you as his friend and that you can access the secret room. If you’re not Knurr’s friend, not aware of the code and try to access the room, he will growl and let you know you’re not welcome. There is a bending sensor in his lip, which activates when you put your hand in his mouth. If you do the code by putting your hand over his left eye, he gives you his happy sound. This because of the light sensor in his eye. Now you have the access.

Tabletop game – Lie or Die

Lie or Die is a boardgame for 3- 8 people, designed by Pei pei and myself. It contains a lie detector, which test your sweat and your pulse and a touch screen. A bank robbery has been committed, everyone is a suspect. Your mission is to reveal the others identity, and try to save your own skin.

The game
Everyone gets a small screen infront of them, with a charecter, every characters have some listed facts. You also have an index file of all the games characters. And the possibility to make small notes.

Round 1
Answer random questions, connected to the lie detector. There is only a yes/no alternative to the questions.
After some sec. the lie detector will either be green, red or yellow.

Green = true
Red = false
Yellow = the lie detecor is’nt sure

It’s up to the players to eliminate alternatives and to remember every questions, answers and the lie detectors colour. At round 1 everyone have to answer a question.

Round 2
Decide who you want to terrorize, still with random questions. Everyone must choose a player, who need to answer the question.

Round 3
Decide who you want to terrorize, and also choose the question. Everyone must choose a player, who need to answer the question.

Winning
To win the game you need to be rihgt on all the players characters. Before you can guess, you need to lock the game. If you got all the characters right, you are the winner! If you don’t, the game will continue as before you locked it.

Enhanced cards – interactive invitation

Week 2: The task was to produce a novel interactive invitation; I ended up making an invitation to a premiere party.

I went to Clas Ohlson to find some cheap LED lights, and found a really beautiful out-door Christmas decoration, it was cheaper than 40 LED bulbs… And to find a simple rectangular mirror in Oslo was harder then I could imagine, here I ended up with a big sticker-mirror for kids.

So, I built a mock-up to find the right proportions, and tried out different ways to make the bulbs light when the invitation was opened. I also checked out how many of the bulbs I needed in the invitation, to make it look cool and similar to a real make-up mirror.

The Invitation
Peipei is in this context an actress getting a surprise package in her mail one day. When she opening the box the LED lights will shine and she can read the invitation. The tissue paper sticking out of the box can be taken out and is for wiping off the make-up.

Analysis task: Museums & Innstallations

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