💭 About Open Innovation, students and side projects
Since a few years now I love to make projects in parternship between OPT-NC and students at UNC (University of New-Caledonia).
It uses freely available data and - sometimes beta - APIs... and is managed as a personal side project in free time (week-ends and evenings).
💡 Inception
As a kid, I really loved these kind of things in the streets:
...I was like mesmerized by patterns and how dynamic where the informations on them...
Later, I was still enjoying that kind of things and digital art, especially the ones that were involving led matrices:
🎯 The pitch
This is the kind of art that triggered this project's inception :
What if we were building such a useful led-based artefact that would produce in a mean time a nice looking & cool artistic performance while delivering useful live information thanks to minimalist dataviz ?
🤓 What we built
Enough talk, see below what it looks like:
📜 DIY recipe on hackster.io
Below the whole howto to build it by yourself or customize it at your own convenience:
Post-Office Wait Time API-driven waiting time LED Matrix - Hackster.io
An artistic yet useful animated LED matrix to be aware of current wait time in a Post Office. By Adrien Sales.
hackster.io
🧑🎨 Other cool stuff
Below some inspiration around led matrix with a very cool project:
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