My idea is to connect people in close relationships who are far apart. Sometimes making connections to strangers are easy, but making real connections to who we really cared about is hard, it's especially difficult to synchronize with each other's daily activity when you can't see each other often. Intead of talking on the phone or chatting online while the other person's tired with perhaps 12 hours time difference, we just need to signal that we really care about each other.
This is basically what I want to express in this connector project. In the above images, I have demoed using a physical soft object to be the media (connector). When the heart is placed in both locations, some communciation protocal is established and maybe he can make a sound, blink one eye or make a hug. My goal this week is to setup circuits inside a soft object such as this. The fabric switch can be useful.
Another prototype I have in mind is for people in different location to coordinate and make drawings together, invoving a line and two nodes. The system will need to find a way to synchronize the move and when the line joins two nodes, it will give a song. The game could last for 5 mins or even a few days basically you can walk away from it and come back and continue. It just to symbolize the magic moment of connecting with each other when the drawing is made.
A video of experiment with magnet
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