Amsterdam Light Festival 2018:Charging-Pillars
Contents
Briefing
- Current version of the briefing Charging_reality.odp. Still missing the images and final editing. Also, still a working title, now "Charging Reality".
Hexagon formulas
Budget
Main Variables
- #bottle_nr = Number of bottles. 200?
- #pillar_nr = Number of Pillars. 3
Items
- Water cooler bottles = €2 (??)
- Lights (2*#bottle_nr) = €10
- Electronics + per_bottle_cabling = €5
- PSU = #bottle_nr / 50 * €40
- Rent of scaffolding for the exhibition: ???
Walking route: assume 400 bottles, total budget 12,500 Water route: assume 900 bottles, total budget 25,000
Work estimate
- One off
- software: 40H ?
- Electrical design
- Construction of lattice?
- 80H ?
- Time per bottle (at scale)
- PCB: (10/60)h
- Cabling (5/60)h
- fitting (5/60)h
Work activities
Construction of
- Grid of bottles
- The lattice.
- Adhering the bottles to the lattice.
- The pillars
- Light sensors
- Charge lights
- Connection to the gird
- Electronics
- Solution design
- Getting the lights + electronics in the bottles?
- Wiring it all up.
Brainstorms, dumps and questions
- Getting things water resistant is going to be an issue.
- What connectors between bottles are we going to use?
- Who knows about these kind of constructions?
- Use scaffolding beams for the main construction?
- How much light (in watts) in a single bottle is needed?
- Coat the body of the bottle in semi-translucent white/light-gray.
- The pillar is just a bottle that the user can set the intensity to. It simply has neighbor bottles.
- Grid Light control
- Centralized and Distribute signal
- Every bottle individually + signaling of light of neighbors and reaction to that (= conceptually nicest, closest to reality, updating needs attention)
- Per small group of bottles.
Power
- PSU of 500W is €40. If we average 10W max per bottle (we don't do 100% on all bottles at the same time) then 50 bottles per PSU.
Bring to the meeting
- At least one Water cooler bottle with lights installed
