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PocketPark

Why hasn’t it been feasible to bring interactive physical vignettes out of engineered spaces like theme parks and into daily life? Theme Park of Everyday explores how the devices in our pockets can augment and control the physical world. A series of installations and tools for anyone to contribute will depict how playful physical “micro-interactions” can be easily built and embedded into the city around us.

LightBlue Bean

Installations are powered by the LightBlue Bean an awesome BLE Radio + Arduino for $30.

Acknowledgements and License

This project is part of Tom Arthur's thesis at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.

PocketPark is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.

Special thanks to:

  • Gabe Barcia-Colombo and ITP Thesis Classmates
  • Sakar Khattar
  • Robert Scarff
  • Mom & Dad
  • Everyone who listened to me try to explain this thing
  • Punch Through Design - the Bean is awesome!

Open source code included in PocketPark:

Documentation formating:

Arduino examples:

  • TBD

Creative Commons Noun Project icons:

Additional resources utilized: