Date: 
Ongoing
Location: 
MIT Media Lab
Project Team: 
Susanne Seitinger, Prof. William J. Mitchell, Danny Perry (B.A. 2008, MEng 2009) Collaboration with Richard Wilson, Distance Lab, Forres, Scotland, Past undergraduate research assistants: Ellen Yi Chen; Praveen Rathinavelu; Kelley Hutchins; Dawood Rouben

Seitinger, S., Perry, D. S., and Mitchell, W. J. 2009. Urban pixels: painting the city with light. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 839-848.

Urban Pixels - Solar

We are aiming to integrate autonomous physical pixels with renewable energy sources such as solar panels.

These prototypes demonstrate how a series of tiled panels might be coupled with an LED array. The angle and positioning of the device would have to be adjusted to account for the sun angle.