Dominoes Reinvented
Hi all,
To shed some light on the coming examinations I thought this cool ZigBee project could bring in some help. Have a look at the short video below and let us know if you liked it. The research and development was done at the Japanese Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group. And indeed, this is a very nice example of a ubiquitous system that uses ZigBee wireless communication as human-computer interaction model .
I picked this project out of a gallery of xBee projects because I wanted to share this more playful approach on Wireless Sensor Networks with you. Each domino can interact with other pieces wirelessly, so when one piece falls it sends a signal to his neighbour ordering him to do the same.
Source: Esper Digital Dominoes – by Jarashi Suki and the IAMAS Ubiqutous Interaction Research Group – http://gallery.digi.com/2012/03/08/esper-digital-dominoes-by-jarashi-suki-and-the/
Cool video. I understand that through the ZigBee piece you can communicate between the pieces. But is it also the ZigBee that makes the pieces fall? Does it also communicate with another part to make the the piece fall, with a mass movement in the domino piece for example?
Zigbee gives the signal, mechanics make the block fall. But the mechanics are not of our intrest. That’s the easy part. But you are right it’s probably some sort of mass movement in the block, zigbee just sends information around.
Zigbee is like a wifi network only slower and low power. But for the rest you can assume it works almost the same.