Skate Park I Want A Pony

• analog

  • spark flint thing at lip

• Sensors

  • Pressure
  • Near Field (rfid/bluetooth/ir/proximity/sonar/etc)
    • Bluetooth/wifi
    • rfid
      • vending machine sell stickers put on your deck.
        • donkey kong, skate or die, wheel, joystick. culture of skate to vending machine. punch the big springy button. get your rfid badge graphic sticker.
  • Piezo
  • Mic
  • RGB(D)
    • Kinect
      • Point Cloud at lip
      • Regular RGB for capturing x

• What do these sensors do?

  • camera capture of deck graphic to make as avatar for leaderboard
  • simple blob tracking (for feedback or particle trail )
  • landscaping visual feedback (animating led illumination)
  • smartphone enabled accelerometer data collection to then send to 'server'

• philosophy

  • opt-in interactivity vs not vs opt-out interactivity
    • does everybody activate a trigger?
    • demographic, who does the interaction target? [skill level required (landing the lip vs hitting it w/ your hip)]
    • scale feedback. like everybody triggers something. but really good tricks/events trigger really awesome things.
      • sound. maybe even consistently (achievement driven).

• What the does board expect

  • where do you source the parts
  • the app will sell (mobile, +)
  • messaging
    • vancouver skate culture.
      • red dragon.
      • jax
    • punk music
      • doa
      • skinny puppy
    • are there any others?
    • what the space will be used for.

Takeaways

• skateboard markup language