Spooky Photobooth

Description

Sensor activated photobooth application

Concept

A halloween-themed photobooth that triggers a countdown when the user wears a prop and saves a photo with a spooky surprise

Role

Experience Design visual Design Creative Coding

Technique

Arduino P5.js physical fabrication

Tools

Arduino Uno LIS3DH Triple Axis Accelerometer Photobooth props

Process

The project used serial communication to connect an Arduino Uno to a p5.js application that features live web-capture to take a “spooky” photo of the user, whereby a transparency image is added to the camera feed upon taking a photo. An Arduino Uno was used to program an LIS3DH triple axis accelerometer and create a capacitance switch inside of a witches hat. The capacitance switch served as a trigger for the photo booth, so that when a user puts on the hat a countdown starts on the live webcam feed, and the accelerometer controls the position of a “spooky” character that appears once the photo is taken.