MusicBox

MusicBox is the new PT’s music channel, at the festival they wanted to had the application on a big screen and have the possibility to control it using a hand gesture. We were hired by Hipnose to accomplish the challenge.

They wanted us to do this with the Kinect camera, but what they didn’t know is that the Kinect doesn’t work outdoors (at least under direct sunlight). Because we’ve been digging with robotics sensors, we figured out that a Laser sensor could solve our problem. And it did, flawlessly!

This installation had a huge PA (power amplifier — sound system) outside, and when there was a concert at the main stage we need to cut the sound so we also customize four headphones to let the people still listen to the grooves. Margarida and Fernando did a great job with the headphones!!

We also added a led strip, it was meant to give instant feedback to the user, when a hand was detected it changed colour to green, on the click it gives red and on idle went blue.