clemens winkler | digital traces

This project examines the creation of traces in interactional way and the use of water as a means to create a novl and beautiful interaction with radio.
The material let entertain to interact with it.
The surface on the top of the board is equipped with sensors. These allows information, played by a radio, to be accessed by touching the grain with water, in acoustic form. Thus, the wood presents viewers with an acoustic feedback ordered by its broadcast stations.
The film is a projection of one of my ideas into a scenario.

video sketch.

My kit an arranged woodplane, with a face full marks of times;

positions, where the contacts are located

the water closed some connections on the plate in a physical manner.

tilt water traces to change the connections within the radio frequencies!

this for example; 100.8 Mhz-> at my 06114 home in Germany it is “D-Radio”

this for example; 96.7 Mhz-> at my 06114 home in Germany it is “Radio1″

this for example; 96.3 Mhz-> at my 06114 home in Germany it is “MDR Kultur”

Now, I want to you use water to bridge anode and cathode.

testing water circuit connection with a transistor to amplify the signal -the diode lighten up!

I buy a little radio kit; Firstly I thought the frequency controller is a potentiometer, to put a multiplexing circuit through it, but it is a variable condensator.

I placed the radio kit on the downside of the board and add a multiplex circuit with six contacts.

A pair of contacts in annual rings.
I hope when it is finished you only see the the livin wood plane not the technical extension.

abstract:
The singularity of natural skins- I want to remember in a prototype.
I found traces in nature, especially the marks of time in wood. The material,..

I collected different types of wood;
lived wood not this new types, which you can buy at “obi” or something else;

Idea:
A wood table plane to put your glas on it.
When drinking it happens you tilt some water, tee whatever you drink, above the plate.
In traditional you want to clean the table. But suddenly the wood making frequencies of a radio?! What do you prefer to do? You interact with the water traces on wood to change frequencies or you clean it;


The interaction method is to cover the tracks of tilted water.

This example shows where I was going and in which speed- a kind of motion path;

The starting point for this project was my assignment: by enhancing a material electronically, make an intelligent surface intelligent and able to interact with the world around it. My initial approach was to experiment with physical displays that show computer generated information by a physical change of material.

Have fun by reading and commenting my digital logs.