Title |
DRM Chair |
Author |
Les Sugus (Gianfranco Baechtold, Laurent Beirnaert, Pierre Bouvier, Thibault Brevet, Raphaël Constantin, Lionel Dalmazzini, Edina Desboeufs, Arthur Desmet, Thomas Grogan) |
Date |
2013 |
Description |
The DRM Chair has only a limited number of use before it self-destructs. The number of use was set to 8, so everyone could sit down and enjoy a single time the chair. A small sensor detects when someone sits and decrements a counter. Every time someone sits up, the chair knocks a number of time to signal how many uses are left. When reaching zero, the self-destruct system is turned on and the structural joints of the chair are melted. This was a 48h-long project, from concept to final video shooting. |
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Technology |
Arduino, contact switch to detect a person seating, solenoid to hit the chair and signal number of seatings left, relay box to switch on the self-destruct system, all powered by a small RC battery.
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Related |
Eight Times Only by Domus, Domus #968, 2013. |
Related |
Chair Self-Destructs After Being Sat On Eight Times by Emma Hutchings, psfk, March 5, 2013. |
Related |
The DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Sittings by Mark Wilson, Fast Co. Design, March 7, 2013. |
Related |
DRM Chair – Chair that self-destructs after 8 uses by Filip Visnjic, Creative Applications, February 2, 2013. |
Keywords |
control, digital, DRM, obsolescence, ownership, process |
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236 |
