Range Lights Interactive Museum Display: Difference between revisions

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Project:	Range Lights Interactive Museum Display (I)
Description:	A display where a ship's wheel controls a virtual ship on a screen to demonstrate how Range Lights work
Skillset(s) :	3D Modelling • 3D Printing • Arduino • Electronics • Graphic Design • Making • Programming • Python • Raspberry Pi
Project Type(s) :	Featured Project • Interactive Display • Museum Display

The Selkirk Marine Museum asked us to set up a display about Range Lights, maritime navigation aids that help a vessel stay in a channel. We set up an Interactive Display that uses an Ship's Wheel , which lets the user control a display created in Pygame on a Raspberry Pi that simulates steering a ship to bring it in line with a set of range lights.

How we did it

We provided the Ship's wheel keyboard emulator. We generated the graphics for the islands, rudder indicator and messages, and designed and rendered the background wave video components for the game. We programmed the actual game in python and pygame. We set up the Raspberry Pi to boot to an update sequence that would read any required updates from a USB stick and then starts the game.

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-[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Range_light Range Lights] are maritime navigation aids that help a vessel stay in a channel. We set up an interactive display that uses an [[Arduino]] to detect the movement of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_wheel ship's wheel], which lets the user control a display created in [[Pygame]] on a [[Raspberry Pi]] that simulates
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-steering a ship to bring it in line with a set of range lights.
+|shortDescription=A display where a ship's wheel controls a virtual ship on a screen to demonstrate how [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Range_light Range Lights] work
+|longDescription=The [[Selkirk Marine Museum]] asked us to set up a display about [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Range_light Range Lights], maritime navigation aids that help a vessel stay in a channel. We set up an [[Interactive Display]] that uses an [[Ship's wheel keyboard emulator | Ship's Wheel]] , which lets the user control a display created in [[Pygame]] on a [[Raspberry Pi]] that simulates steering a ship to bring it in line with a set of range lights.
-The museum provided an antique ship's wheel for this, and we designed, 3d printed and integrated the quadrature encoding using hall sensors. We also provided the graphics and video components for the game.
+|geekery=We provided the [[Ship's wheel keyboard emulator]]. We generated the graphics for the islands, rudder indicator and messages, and designed and rendered the background wave video components for the game. We programmed the actual game in python and pygame. We set up the Raspberry Pi to boot to an update sequence that would read any required updates from a USB stick and then starts the game.
+|skillSet=3D Modelling; 3D Printing; Arduino; Electronics; Graphic Design; Making; Programming; Python; Raspberry Pi
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+|projectType=Featured Project; Interactive Display; Museum Display
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