Emersive theatre tech - building actuators last minute
summary
A DevOps-built kit of interactive props uses six Raspberry Pis and RFID podiums plus neopixels, servos, motors, smoke machines and UHF tags to make sentient-feeling puzzle pieces that run four months of weekend shows; later iterations add ESP8266/ESP32 + MQTT + Node-RED, USB DMX for lights, and a Ubiquiti mesh to reduce Wi‑Fi chaos. The surprise is reliability: simple building blocks yield emergent magic, but UHF read zones, festival Wi‑Fi and last-minute wiring produce epic failures as often as mindblowing successes.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 4:062018 A CONVICT'S HOPE
- 11:112018 GAME Epic failure, and yet a success
- 12:17THE TECH FOR WAND DUELING
- 18:43HARDWARE
- 21:35WONDERLAND
- 22:51OCTOPUS
- 23:32MUSHROOMS
- 23:44FLOWERS
- 24:04TREE STUMP
- 24:31ITS A CLOUD RIGHT?
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