Like KOTOHANA, the SHOJI system consists of a pair of terminals placed at separate locations. Each terminal is equipped with a full-color LED array, a microphone and five sensors (developed at the University of Tokyo) that detect light, temperature, humidity, infrared radiation and ultrasonic waves. In addition to constantly measuring the room’s environmental conditions, SHOJI [...]
Japan Media Arts Festival is a “Contest” in which authors praise creative media art works utilizing the latest expression technology and also Festival in which organizers support creative activity and broadly present various art works. “The world of media arts is expanding with increasing speed every year. notion mold is a space design in which [...]
If you like technology and if you like traditional Japanese art, you should try to build your own LED bonsai tree. There is one simple tutorial that describe one cool way to make it using 1152 LED’s and 256 resistors. The base is a flower pot and a disk of wood with a ring of [...]
Each KOTOHANA set consists two flower-shaped terminals equipped with LEDs that change color according to the emotions of the person who owns the counterpart. Each flower contains a microphone that captures voice data for processing, the results of which are sent via wireless LAN to the other terminal, where it is expressed as LED light. [...]