More refinements to the farmhouse design sees the addition of a battery to collect the energy from the solar panel and wind turbine. The weather data collected from the weather station on the island will light up LEDS on the solar panel, wind turbine and water tank which in turn Read more…
Getting closer. We have now started to work out how all the parts will fit together. Our interactive map will sit over the Neo-pixels and our PCB designs are our capacitive sensors.
Inky impression is a low power consumption e-paper which will allow us to show images even when it is unpowered. We are very pleased with how the Flat Holm Island butterflies and moths are showing on this e-paper.
We have been searching for the right colours for our printed circuit board (PCB) Flatholm Butterfly. Take look at the renders and arranged layers that we have been playing with:
Some really nice effects coming through with the etched Flora & Fauna now placed on the map. The next challenge is how we present the logbooks on this map.
This week we managed to etch and cut out the sustainable farmhouse on wood. Take note at how it looks with the lights behind the cut outs… there is some great potential here to use the lights to bring the house to life.
A very interesting round of early iterative testing this week. The Daptec team learnt a lot from our three young test participant volunteers. For example, in terms of the props it is clear that a touch interaction will occur. Also, they highlighted the need for a human element on the Read more…
Take a peek at some of the printed circuit board (PCB) Flora & Fauna work that we have started. We have decided to remove the detail in the background of the original image below because the butterfly has a lot of colour detail on it already and we are limited Read more…
We have started to look at E-ink… electronic paper display technology. Fun times ahead in exploring what we can display.
Spot the difference. We are looking at what aesthetically works better.. a sharp clean line/ division between the colours or a slightly more blurred division. Either way, we are delighted to see some really vibrant colours coming through.
