one hundred and eight / inflatable garbage bags / by Nils Völker
via vimeo.com
2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller
2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller
"... The Super Mario Bros. game, released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, is not longer bound to the television size and get interactive with a new environment. ... "
Nice one!
Thank you, Zeit online and @wblau for sharing!
'Societys obsession with video and online gaming has advanced to the point that virtual environments are indistinguishable from physical ones.'
A bit long-winded in these fast times...
Thanks for finding, Peter! http://blog.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/
great one!
Reminds me of the fun we had with IDEO’s Global Chain Reaction two years ago. Eight worldwide locations, six time zones, and roughly fifty people involved. It looked more like a blueprint for possible points of failure than a functioning Rube Goldberg machine designed to run sequentially across three continents:
http://labs.ideo.com/2008/10/28/the-incredible-ideo-global-chain-reaction-exp...
