touch-activated sound surface, designed with Drew Burrows and Kim Thompson, at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program | 2007
construction
a black box (of wood, plexiglass, and PVC piping) containing five embedded photosensors that (when covered) activate various tones created through a program run throgh an Arduino microprocessor
idea
An idea that led to the development of Sound Box was the idea to embed sound (and possibly an instrument) within an everyday object. The construction of sound box makes it appear as a tray or a surface. When an object (your mug, wallet, or hand) covers a sensor, sound begins to play. Multiple objects will produce different sounds in different combinations.