LED

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Within the goals of developing a useful accessory for the Kenyan environment and using USB power we created the Tutasoma Bottle Light.  It turns a used soda bottle into a light source bright enough for a room and can eliminate harmful bacteria in drinking water by using an ultraviolet LED.

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Artists – Morgan Rauscher & Miles Thorogood
Hardware design – Morgan Rauscher
Interaction, software and sound design – Miles Thorogood
Producer – Mark Shieh

Interactive LED and sound installation
2010 River Market, New Westminster

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Qora Smart Glove is system to reconnect partners who experience a stroke. We began this project by looking at how people learn about objects by grasping them. While you gain knowledge by looking at the object, and feeling the weight in your hand, there is a wealth of other information that is missing in this interaction. 

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Kinetic floating pixels is an interactive, kinetic light installation made up of an array of moving helium balloons that merges the physical and virtual words in a fun and playful experience.

Visitors are able to choose and control the position of several large balloons and change the colours of individual balloons though an avatar. To operate the avatar a participant stands in the installation space and is tracked by a 3D imaging camera that positions the avatar relative to their body. Visitors are able to trigger waves and other patterns with the balloons, as well as change colours.

This reflexive engagement of the physical and virtual provides playful experience as peoples virtual actions manifest themselves in reality.

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LED Edgelit Interpretive Panel prototype in situation at the NCC's Winterlude 2011 Festival. Working as a student intern, my participation in the development of this prototype included: concept sketches, researching LED backlit/edgelit technologies and finding local suppliers/manufacturers of LED edgelit/backlit panels.

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Interactive mask with sound and light activated by a handheld device and contact points sewn into a glove. Final Deliverable for Core Design Studio III with Jim Budd. 

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"Ning Ning" is an interactive swarm of LEDs that reacts to both stillness and motion. Installed in a corridor or along a path, "Ning Ning" invites viewers to sit and stay a while, encouraging quietude by piquing the interest of passersby with dynamically choreographed LEDs masquerading as flirtatious lightning bugs.

Fireflies are magical. In some cultures they are thought to represent fallen stars or the souls of the deceased. As an indoor/outdoor installation, "Ning Ning" brings the magic of fireflies to both sides of the Rockies enchanting viewers as they walk by and inspiring them to embrace slowness and sparkle.

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Kingsway Luminaires was comissioned by the City of Vancouver's Public Art Program as part of Mapping and Marking: artist initiated public art projects for Vancouver 2010, and was installed November 2009. Three luminaires were installed at Clark and three at Dumphries on the Kingsway.