Last week I joined the Seeker project, a co-creation project by Angelo Vermeulen exploring life in space(ships). It’s been really inspiring so far as living in space combines knowledge from the fields of architecture, sustainability, farming, water and power supply and Quantified Self. The latter being my addition, of course 🙂
Together with architecture master students from the TU/e I’m looking into the interior of the ship which will be based on two caravans. As life in a spaceship is crowded and noisy my aim is to make a quick and dirty prototype that will:
- detect the noise level
- detect the users’ heart-rate
- promote relaxation by pulsating light and sounds from nature
Noise level, heart-rate and soundtrack will (hopefully) be send to the base-station so people have a life indication of the status of the ship and the people living in it.
This is the sketch:
Today I’ll have a talk with the technicians for MAD to see what is possible. I’m thinking of using the following sensors:
Heart-rate: http://floris.cc/shop/en/sensors/731-pulse-sensor-amped.html
Noise level: http://floris.cc/shop/en/seeedstudio-grove/239-grove-sound-sensor.html
Playing sound: http://floris.cc/shop/en/shields/155-adafruit-wave-shield.html
The cocoon itself will be the good old paper lamp:
