Mar 23, 2009

Electric tape is not "soldering"

We want to use light for giving instructions, not as a simple feedback. However, everything we said about people following the light and understanding how the system works were assumptions. To understand how people would really react to a floor that lights up, tries to guide you, we decided to test it on people. We started building 3 or 4 floor tiles so that we can start testing.
After some trials and errors, we managed to create 3 tiles that we can control with switches. However we could not manage to create a nice tile with proper lighting until we discovered christmas lights with their LEDs already connected to eachother and built-in switches.