Our plan is a happy plan. Meaning we are happy with it.
We've gone from idea to idea and finally settled on what we want to do, but the main aim has always been to send a message that circles the idea of how controversial buildings such as our one have been in the space of stonehouse.
Over the past few lectures we've also been discussing what technologies we are going to incorporate into our project meaning how we are actually going to make our design work.
So a brief run-down...
How are we going to use data?
Using RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.- wikipedia)
So here's a small layout of our plan....
Traffic light turns red
Light sensor picks up this action
wirelessly communicates with processing/audino
Displays RSS feed until red light changes.
RSS feed will be incorporated into a flash animation.
Flash animation ends when traffic light turns from red to orange.
RSS in general is for me a piece of coding genius. Such a simple idea and integrates into browsers so well, but what made RSS so appealing is the constant updating of any given feed. Take BBC news, each headline is posted into the feed for any reader to see quickly and easily. So as luck would have it the dance academy building has its own feed here http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/danceacademy via the herald.
Even though its not updated daily perhaps even weekly, if it was it would provide a different experience for the public.
So we plan to project this feed in a way in which the public who see it talk about it afterwards. Perhaps simplicity could be the way forward with this?
So now we know what information we want displaying and how we want it to work. The next step is to figure out how we will do it.
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