Exploratorium Collaboration
Ideum collaborated with Exploratorium’s Global Studios on a project that drew us outside of the realm of multitouch table development. We built a series of highly customized interactives for the Kayseri Science Center in Turkey.
Ideum’s industrial designers and engineers worked closely with the team at the Exploratorium to build these complex “telescope” props for the “Star Colors” interactive. The telescope utilizes an embedded 4.3" LCD screen to “view” stars hanging in the exhibition space. The stars move across the LCD as the visitor pushes the telescope from left to right. A rotary encoder embedded into a gear box at the base of the telescope relays positional data to an Arduino which then communicates that data to the application running on the Surface tablet. The telescopes were fabricated, assembled, and tested here in New Mexico.
Photo Courtesy the Exploratorium.
Exploratorium Collaboration
Ideum collaborated with Exploratorium’s Global Studios on a project that drew us outside of the realm of multitouch table development. We built a series of highly customized interactives for the Kayseri Science Center in Turkey.
Ideum’s industrial designers and engineers worked closely with the team at the Exploratorium to build these complex “telescope” props for the “Star Colors” interactive. The telescope utilizes an embedded 4.3" LCD screen to “view” stars hanging in the exhibition space. The stars move across the LCD as the visitor pushes the telescope from left to right. A rotary encoder embedded into a gear box at the base of the telescope relays positional data to an Arduino which then communicates that data to the application running on the Surface tablet. The telescopes were fabricated, assembled, and tested here in New Mexico.
Photo Courtesy the Exploratorium.