A friend of mine from my Tribal DDB days, Alex Beim, is working on a very cool side project that might be of interest to some of you — Go Ball Glow.

He’s designing a system that seems to be in part art piece and interactive performance. To top it off, it looks like a lot of fun too. I could definitely see it being sold to clubs, concert promoters or bands down the road to use in shows or night clubs. The random glow effect is controlled by detecting changing air pressure, and a microcontroller inside the balls can be manually triggered over Bluetooth as well, which creates some intriguing possibilities.

I’ve posted up a little video he made demo-ing a prototype he built using Ziploc bags. He told me that he’s moving along nicely in development of his prototype (it’s been ongoing for six months now) and that he should have three balls imported from China for test purposes very soon.

Alex is currently looking for someone with some hardware / electrical engineering skill to help out, as his current hardware guy just moved to Ontario (to become a rocket scientist…) Make sure to check out his blog if you’re interested in helping out, or just following the project.

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