Where the Sky Widens – a walk by the edge
The thing about the interactive devices I make for all these interactive workshops is that I rarely get to experience them for myself.
I took the first steps towards correcting that on a recent trip to the South coast, where I spent a few hours walking along a gravel spit that juts out into the Solent.
After experimenting with programming the pod with a few different locations to respond to, I eventually settled on the place where I was born. Here’s the pod doing its thing on a sweep of the horizon:
It was interesting observing how the pod changed in nature as the sun set and night fell. It’s fairly conspicuous in daylight – prompting a “What’s that?! A dinosaur egg?!” from one passer by – but in low or no light it becomes something of a beacon.
On the drive back home my Mum tried to predict which corners would make the pod wobble. She got quite good at it!