PoetryBall utilizes random input to play music or speak poetry when users throw or kick it around. Each segment on the ball is a button, which when pressed, triggers sound heard on overhead speakers. The buttons act independently of one another and each is programmed to send a unique signal when pressed. PoetryBall implements radio technology to send data wirelessly to a computer across the room.

PoetryBall started with the interest in making personified object that can be acvtively engage people. At the same time it becomes a device that brings the participants together in playful interaction.

Everybody!

Used technology- Xbees,Multiplexer, Max/MSP programming, Arduino
Meterial- Customized buttons, Modelling form, corrugated plastic