For my Physical Computing midterm, I worked with Andrea Wolf and Sindy Butz to create a balance board that controls a video in Processing.
Here’s a video of me demonstrating for our class.
Balance Board Media Controller from Allison Walker on Vimeo.
The way it works: User steps on the board, which completes a switch inside the board. An accelerometer inside the board reports back to Processing which way the user is leaning. Right – fast forward. Left – slow down. Tilt forward – screen gets darker. Tilt backward – screen lightens.
Here are some photos of us during prototyping stage and assembly. Here’s a slideshow on Flickr.
