cyancdesign [Chris Yanc]

Interactive Designer and Developer

Version one has been put into use, successfully I may add.

Two weekends ago, Ingenuity Fest Speakeasy 2.0 Fundraiser. It was HOT, but it was Excellent! I was setup in the catacombs of the bridge, but I could still head the bass thumping from the DJs at the base of it. They ended up setting me up right next to Alexander Boxerbaum and Andy Horchler, the time lapse artists I worked with last year. They were showing off their 36 Views of a Bridge videos. And they had new time lapse rigs to try out, I saw the results... AMAZING! They even filmed some use of the Graffiti Wall in sped up time. Video to come soon (^_^).

So the digital graffiti wall. Honestly, I'm kind of flying by the set of my pants with it and need to lock down a few things. I've been wanting to dub it #IngenGraffiti, but I don't know if it is worth doing that, since I'll be able to use it beyond Ingenuity Fest. What do you think? Or should I be named IngenGraffiti for now, and just renamed later?

You wanna see it?

I really like the way it is coming along. And thanks to some feedback from Cameron, an actual graffiti artist, I know some steps to take to make it more realistic on the feed back. For the fundraiser, I didn't have time to make an LED spray paint can, so I got a bunch of little LED flashlights and swapped out the LEDs to the IR ones. They worked well, I was a little worried about the battery life, but they worked. It wasn't until it was all over that I realized I could have cranked up the amplification of the tracking software to track just a bit better, but that I how I learn.

Also, boom! Success in making a LED Spray paint can! Did it last weekend.

I even made it so that I can swap out the LEDs easily. So if I needed to change LED IR wavelengths on the fly at the event, no problem. Or if I wanted to take a stab at doing some light paintings at night, I can change the LED color just the same. Just need to get more battery power into it. Resistor calculator here I come. And just need to make a couple more.

Mark your calendars for Sept. 24-26 if you want to see it first hand. Ingenuity Fest 2010, Cleveland OH.

Tags: #ingengraffiti, Digital Graffiti Wall, Flash, fundraiser, ingenuity fest

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