As the viewer gazes into the box, a fragile statue is sprinkled with water leading to its slow destruction.
As statues and other precious artifacts are moved across the globe to be set up at exhibitions and other events for viewership, the original state has been changed. Each time the structure moves, it is damaged in minute ways.
The circuit for this was very simple. The inputs to the circuit were the proximity sensors The outputs were a DC pump and an LED.
The DC pump was connected to a TIP 120 to allow for 5V to be sent right to the pump while the LED was also triggered by the same signal.
This was all going to be housed in a cube that would hold all the components on the front plate. The circuit would then be powered by a power bank that would fit inside the cube to allow for the system to not have any cables coming out of it.
The circuit on a breadboard - It features an LED, TIP 120, a 1 kOhm and 720 Ohm resistors
This sensor let us see if a person got close to our box and once they got close enough we would activate our sensor.
Which now as I’m typing this think that a PIR might work for our purposes because if it just is a simple On/Off then that might work better and we might even be able to hide the sensor behind a piece of material.
The simulated dripping of water based on proximity
The simulated dripping of water based on proximity
Ultimately we didn’t end up going with that sensor because it was much larger to account for and would trigger anytime anyone was nearby - so instead we ended up going with an ADPS 9930. This sensor is a combination proximity, and ambient color / light sensor.
This ended up working a little better for our purposes because it was much smaller and so we cut a little notch for the sensor to read the change in light when a user bent down to view the inside of the box.
We initially created our front face out of cardboard to test different eye placements and sizes
Placing it towards the top made the viewer look at a downward angle and so they were able to see
For the final front face we ended up using acrylic and made the eyes a little larger to allow for easier viewing.
Our final lasercut front face with larger eyes