Interactive Poetry
for Museum Rietberg Zurich

The exhibition at the Museum Rietberg is dedicated to Ragamala, a jewel of Indian miniature painting where music, poetry, and art seamlessly blend. We have been tasked with designing and developing the interactive section of the poetry area. The core mechanism centers on giving visitors the opportunity to play with words and create their own Ragamala poems in an interactive way – whether digitally, physically, or through a combination of both.

RFID chips have been cleverly embedded inside the solid oak word prisms - one at each face for all three exhibition languages. Placing the prisms on the installation will automatically be detected and registers on the large 4m wide display, inviting bystanders to also come and take a look. The visitor becomes an author - creating their own poetry using the wooden blocks.

An embedded printer can print the final creation as a postcard to take home. With a built in laser jet that is kept warm during opening hours, the cards are almost instantly printed and allow for up to 10 prints per minute.

Projection Mapping
for Filabé

A simple yet impactful effect: bridging the gap between the digital and the physical world. The Swiss cosmetics brand Filabé is stirring up the industry with new products, new services and a new look. At the launch event simple interactive projections amused attendees.

Interactive Learning Stations
for Museum Rietberg

We designed and built a series of intuitive touchscreen stations that invite visitors to explore additional exhibition information at their own pace and in extraordinary depth. High-resolution imagery, layered zoom views, video sequences, and multilingual audio narrations bring artworks and artefacts to life. A clean, gesture-friendly interface allows users to dive into the details.

The content management system allows for efficient editing of the content, and the stations can be immediately updated remotely at any time.

Technology

We use HTML5 technology for our all our rendering and interfaces - this speeds up the prototyping and development phase significantly, and allows to deliver high quality experiences at 60 frames per second. Even when we use custom made embedded hardware, we connect to the devices via serial connection directly through HTML5 interfaces.

Installations can automatically check for configuration and content updates, allowing changings to be pushed remotely with ease and be instantly available within seconds.

Open Portable Code: Nerves always shares its code base with its clients. You own your product code so that you can easily take your developed products elsewhere or grow your own internal engineering team, if needed.

Hardware

Our rich collection of Arduino libraries make integration and development of sensors, push buttons, and other I/O components extremely fast and painless. Mini PCs that do the heavy-lifting give us lots of processing power to ensure everything is as reactive and smooth as possible.

Budget Guidelines

While every project is unique, these budget guidelines give you an idea of the resources required to bring an interactive installation to life.