Digital Paint Bombs: SMSlingshot

The SMSlingshot consists of a projector-equipped minibus and of course the device itself, which is equipped with an ultra-high frequency radio, a hacked Arduino board, a laser, and batteries. Visit the project website to learn more about ‘the making of’.
VR/Urban is a Berlin/Glasgow-based collective of ‘public media interventionists’ that works together to create real-time installations. The aim of all their projects is to reclaim urban screens for the public, and so they did with the SMSlingshot project. This neat installation consists of a mobile text gun for spreading information on public screens and media facades. It enables people to launch digital paint bombs at buildings and walls, containing text messages they’ve typed on the phone-sized wooden keypad which is integrated in the wooden slingshot device. After shooting, the messages appear as colored splashes with the message written within, and they will also be real-time twittered.