“Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the Rainbow!”
This project is based on the Wizard of Oz Ruby Shoes, the main concept was to use the shoes to connect with your friend in a playful way.
Wizard of Oz is all about making new friends and discovering the old ones, friendship is the key message of the tale. If you are lost tap your shoes 3 times and a GPS signal will trigger a SMS to your friends with your location. Hope they are going to rescue you. Since the shoes couldn’t fit everyone I decided to make the Wicked Witch Spats so everyone could wear it.
With the Spats you can play a locative game in the urban landscape. The play consist of minimum 2 participants: Wizard Oz and Dorothy *but more people can play. Dorothy will wear the spats and get lost around the city and with a mobile application Wizard of Oz and the others characters are going in an adventure around the city to find the lost girl. The clues with the location are going to be triggered by the spats.
Technical Specs:
Hardware:
Arduino Uno Board
Libelium 3G/GPRS Shield for Arduino
Sensors:
Switch button
Red Lead light
10k ohm resistor
Arduino Uno Board
Libelium 3G/GPRS Shield for Arduino
Sensors:
Switch button
Red Lead light
10k ohm resistor
This project was developed during the Wearable Technologies course last fall (10/2012) and it is part of my MA studies in New Media at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Here is the demo video:
