Spring Forest

Spring Forest is a hand-crafted arrangement of sensing springs combined with reactive lighting. Players wobble springs to interact with the installation and play games.

A grid of door stopper springs, connected with sensors and LED rings in between.

I've built a board with 36 sensors and LED rings as a test board to build games and interactive prototypes for. Here is it running a “fishpond” demo:

I made a little fish pond for my new spring controller over the weekend #screenshotsaturday #Arduino pic.twitter.com/Z9JLeeaS84

— Robin Baumgarten🕹🛠 (@Robin_B) October 28, 2017

This is the first prototype, built in an afternoon as a feasibility test, running a simple soccer game: