Developed in 2011 | Physical digital puppetry | Interactive installation

Ralph Kistler and Jan Sieber developed an animatronic marionette  from a monkey plush toy. This award winning interactive installation (New Face award in 15th Japan media arts festival) responds to the user body motion by moving a monkey toy that is hanged on the wall.  The system is based on a Microsoft Kinect device using the OpenNI framwork with the OSCeleton to track the users motion. Then, the capture data is sent via OSC to the a Processing program adjusting the joint angles to be sent again to an Arduino (microcontroller) that is located inside the puppet. The Arduino board controls ten servo motors attached to a skeleton that makes the monkey come alive.

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