This is a montage of the "Remember Me" exhibition at Futureverything. The festival was held up in Manchester and we got to install "Tales of Things" into the Oxford Road Oxfam shop.
The idea was for people to come in and leave stories about their donated objects. When people came into the shop to browse their objects they would be given a wand to scan the objects and here the tales of their past.
It worked a treat and Oxfam managed to sell most of the items we tagged up!
The technical side of things were quite interesting. We used both the RFID iPhone box with Audioboo and a bluetooth RFID reader built into a makerbot-style plastic wand. The setup was quite simple but had a few challenges to beat, not least was the A-Team style repair on one of the readers' bluetooth modules. We had to put together a few wands in quick time and make sure everything worked 'in-the-field' without a run through. It was fun and I think the peeps who came into the shop had a good time.
