Merpy.com
/ Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU 2000
Project Description: Merpy.com is a children's
Website which features the animated, musical, and interactive stories of several
characters by Marianne Petit. This project set out to build life-size puppets of the Web characters.
The user would face the puppet theater and through manipulating a traditional
pop-up advance the story.
Technical Notes:
I worked with Marianne to create the life-size motorized puppets. I built a microcontroller to control them and
wrote an authoring tool in Macromedia Director/Lingo for creating sequences
of animations for the puppets.