THE EGGSPERIENCE
Current Status
Are you tired of your everyday routine? Step into The Eggsperience and reinvent yourself.
VERSION 2 - DTLA Mini Maker Faire
I shared The Eggsperience at the DTLA Mini Maker Faire, and got really valuable insight into what intrigues people about the experience, how to improve it, where to focus, and where to not focus.
It was the first time it was able to be assembled as a whole, an experience I’ve been procrastinating on with the excuse that I was too busy.
It was really fun to watch children interact with the van. They were unsure, timid, but curious. I would ask them, would you like to sit inside? Some would say yes, some no. If no, I’d reassure them, it’s just a massage chair.
Once they were inside, their eyes widened because of the massage chair turning on, and they relaxed. I would then ask them, “Do you feel like an egg?” and their faces would light up! It was so funny - “OMG Yeah! It’s an egg!”
When I would ask adults the same thing, they would say, “uhhh I don’t know what an egg feels like”. An interesting perspective, but shows you how some adults have lost their sense of imagination. It’s okay though, just shows that I need to rework how I guide adults through for what I’d want them to get out of it.
VERSION 1 - The Van and the Throne
I bought a massage chair insert, learned how to control the analog voltage, and built controls on the throne in order to control them in a different way.
Using a ball-mouse, touch sensors, and (in the future) a joystick, participants can control the massage chair in an exploratory way.
It’s lit
Under the Yolk
Notable Moments
If Chicken is an Egg, who came first?
Solar charged deep cell battery to supply power (independent from car battery)
The street taketh and giveth: found a throne perfect for the eggsperience
Hacked a massage chair to be controlled by the arduino. Learned how diodes work (and don’t work) the hard way.
Chicken went on it’s first road trip in the Southern California heat, and lived to tell the tale.
Shared the complete experience at the DTLA Mini Maker Faire in Dec.
