Interactive Led wall sensors

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Hello everyone :wave:t2:

I’m planning an interactive installation featuring a large LED wall and six floor buttons. When visitors jump or step on these buttons, each one will trigger a different animation on the LED wall.

I have two questions:

  1. What type of LED wall would be suitable for this installation, considering we need to set it up and take it down daily over a span of two months at various locations?
  2. What kind of sensors can we use to detect when the buttons are pressed?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

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I can’t give you any advice on the LED side of things, but for the floor sensors, we have used the I-CubeX sensor system. It’s quite a handy little bit of kit - doesn’t require much, (if any) coding, and you can plug multiple sensors and different kinds of sensors in at a time.

You need the main module: https://infusionsystems.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/204

And then the sensor(s): I-CubeX Online Store : Motion Sensors for Digital Media Control

For the R&D project we did below we used: I-CubeX Online Store - TouchMini : Contact pressure sensor

R&D project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lem2PNEUQg

To use it in this example we just placed it under a tile of carpet and users could step on the carpet and it would provide the amount of force, meaning you could have granular interactivity.

We have also used this for a permanent installation so they are quite reliable imo.

Hope this helps!

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Thank you so much for the detailed advice! This sounds like exactly what I need. I really appreciate you sharing the links and your experience with the I-CubeX sensor system. I’ll definitely give it a try!

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No worries! Feel free to reach out if you end up going that route and you need any assistance with it.

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