A Piggy Bank For The Digital Generation
This concept device is a curious hybrid of tamagotchi meets rainy day saving scheme, and is driven by an even more curious back end of hardware. The gadget emotes via an iPhone secreted away behind a laser cut facade, giving the impression of needy, demanding, eyes. These eyes are only satisfied when a credit card is swiped into it’s mouth:
An Arduino detects and manages the money and transmits status back to a computer via Bluetooth, which in turn notifies the iPhone over WiFi.
Wang Chao, Maggie Kuo and Jordi Parra
| TOPICS: | Design & Architecture, Electronics & Gadgets, Youth |
| TAGS: | arduino, credit cards, iphone, piggy bank, rainy day, saving, Tamagotchi |
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Stephen is a regular contributor to PSFK. He is also an interactive media practitioner engaged in artistic interventions which investigate and illuminate computational culture. His areas of expertise include open data and physical computing.
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