Introduction: Unwrapped: Kommunikations-Gully
Connect (at least two) duct-covers acoustically to bulid a communication system within the city.
A «unwrapped - Aktivierung städtischer Objekte» project: http://thinkunwrapped.org
Watch the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q94EyO73Trg.
Concept developed in the «unwrapped» seminar in Graz: http://www.thinkunwrapped.org/index.php?id=75
Concept realised by the unwrapped team: http://www.thinkunwrapped.org/index.php?id=86
Step 1: Material
a walkie-talkie
Step 2: Material
a headset with a baby microphone
Step 3: Material
active loudspeakers
Step 4: Material
a wooden box, a flexible plastic, aluminium tape, glue, screws, orange spray
Step 5: Material
a bag
Step 6: Material
street tape
Step 7: Construction
wooden box:
- wooden box: 10 x 21 x 5 cm
- 1 hole for the microphone
- 2 little holes for the cables
- 4 small screws on the box (construction to fix later the plastic)
- 1 big screw (later for the electric contact)
- 4 holes on the side (to fix it later on the duct cover)
Step 8: Construction
- tape (to fix the elastics)
- elasitcs (for the walkie-talkie
Step 9: Construction
- microphone into the big hole
- each part of the headset switch into one small hole
Step 10: Construction
- stick the aluminium tape on the flexible plastic
- one headset switch cable is connected to the aluminium tape
- one headset switch cable is connected to the big screw
Step 11: Construction
- connect the head-set cable on the walkie-talkie
- fix the walkie-talkie with the elasitcs
- fix the cables with the elastics
Information:
- this antenna in not necessary
Step 12: Construction
et voilà
Step 13: Installation
open a duct-cover
Step 14: Installation
- put the active loudspeaker into the bag
Step 15: Installation
- fix the bag with cable ties on the duct-cover
Step 16: Installation
- fix the woode box with cable ties on the duct cover
Step 17: Installation
- stick the street tape around the duct cover
Step 18: Installation
- and let people interact