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Rocky Road

Rocky Road

A project about recycling and cycling by John-Paul Pochin, Chris Leyland and Frog Twizzell

We very much live in a throw away society and while there are many examples of our wastefulness, this project focuses on printers. Despite all the resources that go into making a printer and the technology they contain, many are thrown away simply because they've run out of ink. Almost none are recycled and instead they slowly rot in landfills. This project uses an old redundant printer as a starting point to create an interactive game that represents the struggles and the obstacles cyclists face and demonstates the usefulness of some of the things we discard.

Many other parts in the project are recycled, including the projector (bought from the recycle centre for $5 and then repaired), and the bike that has been recycled from another art project ('The Last Tree' project for the 2013 Light Nelson event).

Thanks to Frog Twizzell for the 3D printed components and Chris Leyland for his help in putting this project together.

This project will evolve throughout The Arcade exhibition and is aimed to be a teaching tool. It uses a Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/) and an Arduino (https://www.arduino.cc/) to handle the video, read the sensors and control the motors. They communicate with each other through I2C (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2C). All source code will be made available at the end of the project.

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