making a monitoring system for an escape room

Lately I’ve been asked to develop a monitoring system for an escape room. It had to be as simple and affordable as possible. The system is Raspberry Pi based, and it features an IP surveillance camera, a local wifi generated by the RPi to which the admin can connect, monitor the players, and send them messages via a websocket system. The raspberry pi is autonomous; once plugged...

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Building robots & OTHER COOL STUFF

From July to December 2017, I had the opportunity to work as an accessorist at the Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne under the eye of the one and only Mathieu Dorsaz, chief-acessorist at the theatre. I must say it was an amazing experience, and I got out of my comfort zone for sure! Depending on which theatre play is going to be displayed, a typical day at the theatre involves (but is not limited to)...

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Remixing museums

In november 2017 I had the opportunity to take part in a great experience: Museomix. For those of you who are wondering, here’s a definition of what Museomix is, as explained on their website:Museomix [...] is an open community of innovation, culture, and technology enthusiasts who share the desire for a dynamic museum that is connected and interactive. Museomix, it ...

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stations cinétiques

In october 2017, I had the chance to get involved in a really cool project: The making of analog-only, DIY, experimental devices that would produce visual and sound output.
Artists Bazil Félix and Rémy Bender, the initiators of the project, describe it as follow:
“Rémy Bender et Bazil Félix proposent avec «Stations Cinétiques» une ...

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Making a globe shaped picture browser

I love travelling, but I think it’s always quite boring to show pictures to people. So I’m currently working on a project that should hopefully make the experience a little bit more interesting and interactive. What I want to do is a globe-shaped, arduino-based photo album. Basically, the globe would be used as a controller. First, you’d pick the “album”, -classified by countries- by touching it, and then you’d browse the pictures by spinning the globe ...

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How to make stalker masks

Through my current job as interaction designer in Switzerland, I had the chance to develop the storytelling of a six months long exhibition that is currently taking place in the museum Art et Collections, in Crans Montana.
The pieces that are displayed are traditional Swiss masks, carved in the Lötschental valley, in Wallis. This tradition has been ongoing for centuries now, and those masks are beautiful, fascinating and strange at the same time...

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Experimenting with adobe Character Animator

I recently had the occasion to experiment a little bit with Adobe Character Animator, and I must say I was pretty impressed with it.
Basically, it allows you to animate a character -a simple .psd or .ai file- with really accurate face and eye tracking. All you need to do is just sit in front of a camera (generally the computer’s webcam), and it will track your face, detect blink...

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Happilee or how to represent computer feelings

2016 was a big year for me. I graduated from ECAL, and I got a first (exciting!) job as design intern at PAN studio, London. I did various things, and one of the projects that I worked on is called HAPPILEE, a physical movement game in which players must rescue a small, obsolete robot that is prone to dying when exposed to ”data hotspots”. In the game, the only way to save HAPPILLEE (the robot), is by taking it in your hands, and walk through an ...

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How to play darts with the world

My starting point was a recurrent thought that I had, and that I called the paradox of distances: we live an era where we have all the technology we need to know exactly, within meters, distances between geographic points. We can even explore the whole world with our phones or computers, thanks to softwares like google maps and others. Yet, we are unable to grasp those distances when they become too big, and they are ...

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