[Bloominglabs-announce] Idea for the 4th Street pedestrian bridge

[S Charlesworth]

These are all pretty great ideas, do we have a rough estimate of what kind
of budget we have though? Might get kind of pricey once all the pieces are
together. Anyhow if there is going to be a Raspberry Pi in the mix maybe
you can do some OpenCV magic to get an idea of traffic density and such and
MIDI magic for the music...or trigger random samples from the BBC 'rural
sound effects' compilations....all kinds of possibilities....

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On Apr 18, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Matt Standish <mstandish at gmail.com> wrote:

This is cool! Now that I am home for a while I would love to sign up and
become a member.

Have you thought about collecting data? For example after a few weeks you
could change the tones and see if people walk at a different pace. Or keep
track of the tone patterns throughout the day and publish a type of 'sheet
music'. Busy foot traffic would have a different song then slow traffic.




On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jenett Tillotson <jtillots at cogbots.com>wrote:

> After talking it over with several people, it seems like the most popular
> idea is to decorate the bridge with some kind of lights and/or sounds that
> are activated when people walk through the tunnel - kinda like the Indy
> Airport pedestrian walkway. What do people think of this idea? It would
> take a bit longer to implement, but if we took our time and designed it
> well, it could be something that lasts in the walkway for a long time. We
> could just use IR detectors to sense when someone walks by. We could then
> play a note using the same system used for the IR harp project. There are
> lights in the bridge that we could tie into for electricity. The bridge
> also has a drop ceiling which would make installing our own lights for this
> project fairly easy.
>
> So, what do people think of this idea? Is it worth doing? Do people want
> to take on a longer project like this?
>
> Jenett
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