Saw this at the Grammy Museum over the weekend.
Very clever use of the enclosure to create higher resolution geometry, in sort of an inversion of Sensel’s overlay concept.
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that’s a really cool idea for an installation.
I wonder if you do a ‘slim’ version of this with some kind of ‘rubber’ overlay that stretched over the surface, easy to take on/ off - to just act as a mask.
probably difficult to diy, whereas I guess this is 3d printed.
also an enclosure nicely hides the wires too - useful for an installation.
cool stuff
It’s interesting to me that while his Erae Lab layouts are just a bunch of rectangles, the rigid overlay “reframes” them so completely, enforcing different shapes.
(For better or worse, a rubberized overlay would break that constraint, and let fingers slide outside of the alternate polygons. Does that matter? I don’t know. Maybe it’s better.)
I will say, I worry about the touchable surface being exposed to unsupervised children all day. A slim wrap like you’re describing would probably be worthwhile for that reason, even beneath the hard enclosure.
I was thinking a laser cutter, but a CNC mill is even more likely. Either way, subtractive techniques are much faster to implement than additive, when what you’re constructing is a flat surface with holes in it.