Touch Forest

I’m interested in encouraging more people to step off the beaten path and take a chance to explore the woods around them.

Earlier this semester I built a capacitive touch tree with a group of Engeneering students. The goal was simply to create an exciting interaction. That goal was achieved
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I believe this interaction can be used in a network of trees to lure people of the trails in shenley in an exciting and playful manner.

The setup:
TouchSensor=>Arduino=>rpi=>amp
xBee=>rpi
Battery powered everything

I started learning ChucK and began setting up this piece of Audio based off the code for the capacitive touch tree from build 18.

This is the current state of this poject

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