Digital Shoreditch

I had a lot of fun making something frivolous for family day at the Digital Shoreditch festival with colleagues Thomas and Margaux.

We made an installation where one participant could pump anothers head up into a big balloon! Watch the case study below to see what I mean:

Digital Shoreditch from Stinkdigital on Vimeo.

We experimented with the Kinect sensor using open source drivers, but they proved to be quite unstable at the time. In the end we did something fairly simple using a displacement map and motion detection.

Here’s the (messy) code on if you’d like to see how we did it: