Ideas for a nerdy custom hotel room fit out.

[sighmon]

Hi all,

An art director friend of mine has 45 rooms to customise at a city
hotel. He's interested in having one with a nerdy theme, and I
suggested that Hackerspace might be able to help out with some ideas.

Budget: $1,200 ($1,000 materials, $200 for Hackerspace)
Proposals due: end of January.
Limitations: rooms are quite small, 3.5m x 3.5m roughly. Theme needs
to be visible in daylight and dim light.

My initial idea was a laser observatory, turning all walls and ceiling
into an animated walkthrough of our galaxy. Bonus benefit is that the
room would seem bigger.

Post your ideas/thoughts here!

Simon.

[Clinton Young]

conductive paint on a wall with a LED night light?

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[Paul Schulz]

'flash wall' (eg. glow in the dark paint and strobe light)

star projector on ceiling

[Peter Wintulich]

Hello,

May be CNC engraved wall panels of various flavors, (Chemistry, PCB
board, Planetry System, Famous people of Science, Robot Managery).
Possibly each panel could have a simple feature,
i.e. the chemistry one could have bubbles rising through a transperent tube.
The PCB could have some of the signal wires done in acrylic and lit
by flicering or color changing leds.
An animated part or 2 on the Robot panel, and led's.
some lighting around planet orbits that chang with the time of day,
(moon phases etc).

Peter

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[Robert Hart]

How about wall totally covered in mother boards, I know where I can get
literally tons ;-)

Paint it with clear paint to reduce the lead poisoning OH&S if hotel
clients try to lick the walls.

Robert

[Robert Hart]

Or maybe furniture

 

[Steven Pickles]

Like this?

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=XrNz9deYIJU

pix

[Richie Khoo]

Something interactive that the guest could connect to with their smart phone.

[Peter Wintulich]

Hello,

May be Bed lamps that look like Vanda-graph Generators.

Peter


On 18/01/13 10:52, sighmon wrote:

[Damien P]

I like the motherboard coffee table (the chair looks a bit uncomfortable!).  Put interactive LEDs in it [1], or put a arcade game in it.

Add some keyboard membrane lamp shades [2].

Have a look at other hackerspaces to see what they've installed.  Maybe check "Hackerspaces – The Beginning (the book)" [3].

 1: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2007/interactive-led-coffee-tables/
 2: http://www.instructables.com/id/Keyboard-Circuit-Sheet-Lampshade/
 3: http://blog.hackerspaces.org/2011/08/31/hackerspaces-the-beginning-the-book/

[Steven Pickles]

The Borg suite? :)

pix

[Steven Pickles]

Also remember with these kinds of project, because of the small artist fee compared to equipment, it's best to look for things that are tech heavy, and relatively low labour.

I'm not sure if Simon mentioned that the turnaround time for this project is quite tight. Can you remind me how tight Simon?

Anyhow, another reason to prefer low-labour options.

Of course high-labour-of-love is always an option, if you have the time, and the love to spare :)

pix

[Kim Hawtin]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillianisaphotographer/512358735/in/photostream/

http://littlebirdelectronics.com/blogs/frontpage/7179676-the-arduino-powered-twitter-mood-light

http://thegrue.com/giant-nes-takes-up-space-doesnt-play-games/

http://thegrue.com/lego-8bit-mosaic-is-a-work-of-art/

http://thegrue.com/neon-genesis-evangelion-transformer-made-from-cardboard/

http://thegrue.com/waist-high-arcade-machine-build-documented-in-images/

http://mashable.com/2013/01/13/epic-ascii-art/

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[Damien P]

On Friday, January 18, 2013 2:33:29 PM UTC+10:30, kim wrote:

http://mashable.com/2013/01/13/epic-ascii-art/

An ASCII-art-in-ASCII-art feature wall:

 1. Render a low resolution image through aalib.  Maybe something game related, suitably licensed.
 2. Render these letters through aalib again, this time with very tiny letters
 3. Print with a 42" printer
 4. Glue to wall

[Richie Khoo]

"I like the motherboard coffee table (the chair looks a bit uncomfortable!).  Put interactive LEDs in it [1], or put a arcade game in it."

Oh yes +1 having an arcade game in the table, or somewhere in the room.

How about MAME running on a RasberryPi?

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2412

Could set it to a classic 2 player game and make it like those table top type arcade machines.

Umm maybe have a led display on the wall that you and your mates could tweet at and it sets it to what the tweet says.

Richie

@evolve2k

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[Tamsyn Michael]

I like the arcade game idea.  Less work, more fun.  Not sure about the led lights.  An obvious off switch?  It's a (small) room for sleeping...?  Plus lots of work?  Or could we use the ready prepared panels like our format sign?

[sighmon]

Thanks for all the ideas guys! I'll try and roughly estimate the cost/
time of each and see which he likes.

Let you know soon.

s.

[Robert Hart]

This is nice

http://hackaday.com/2013/01/23/dead-motherboard-wall-are-hides-an-led-marquee/