Dunk Yaron Catapult

Oxygen Media, Convergence Lab 2000

Project Description: This project allows Web users to control elements in a live television broadcast. In this case, the Web audience can activate a catapult that hurls actual objects on to television studio stage. 

On the home television we see a young man sitting in a dunk tank reading poetry.  When a web user successfully aims at the dunk lever, he is dunked.  This is a segment in a late night circus called UTV.

This was a collaboration with Sharleen Smith Yaron Ben-Zvi, Jed Ela, Ruel Espejo and Wayne Chang of Oxygen.

Technical Notes: I wrote both the Web and producers' interface for picking contestants in Macromedia Director/Lingo outputting to Shockwave.  I used the Multi-User Server for the networking.  I built the electronics and programmed in Basic the microcontroller that senses the motors in the catapult.