Caspr
Client: Philips
ID master class – duration: 6 weeks
Team members: Jaap Knoester, Ibai Perez Artieda, PeiChun Chen
Imagine that products of your guest are guests as well. This was the starting point for the design of Caspr, a system that opens up hospitality of your digital home. It was created for the Philips Creative Challenge 2009 around the theme hospitality.
Caspr is a concept for a speaker system that shows hospitable behavior towards the guests’ music devices. The Caspr products behave differently based on the situation and proximity of the guests’ products.
The scenario of the speakers was implemented:
The speakers turn towards guests when they arrive, because the speakers are curious and want to start a conversation with the guests’ music device. When the guest starts to play music on their phone or mp3-player the speakers start to boogie. The closer the phone gets to a speaker, the more the speaker takes over the volume of the music.
The set of speaker are implemented in a working experience prototype. This interactive prototype consists of 3D printed models, an Arduino microcontroller, a Max/MSP program, several servos and stepper motors, speakers and a tracking system using WiiMotes and an infrared LED on a mobile phone. It is also possible to control the speakers with an iPhone.
In this project I was team leader and responsible for the development of our vision and concept and implementation of electronics and software.
Caspr won the ID master class and was exhibited at the Philips Innovate 09 event and ID’09 exhibition.
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