#interface

A Hand-Drawn House Becomes a Smart-Home Dashboard, with Animated Appliances

Smart-home control panels often consist of plain buttons and icons. Anton Frolov took a different approach: he turned a hand-drawn illustration of his house into a smart-home dashboard.

A fireplace flickers in the illustration, garden lights glow, and an air conditioner animates in response to the real appliances' states. The artwork changes between day and night. Frolov commissioned illustrator Owen Yeconiel and connected the drawing to Home Assistant. A TV displays the whole house, while phones and computers provide controls.

ファニトロちゃん:大好き

When the family didn't want to use the smart-home controls, the solution was to illustrate the entire house—and animate its appliances. The interface redesign became an art commission.

Details: Anton Frolov ↗

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A Punching Flick Keyboard Lets You Type Japanese by Hitting a Cushion

M5Flick is an input interface that lets users type Japanese by punching a cushion while wearing a red glove. Instead of flicking a phone screen with a finger, the user turns full-body motions into text input, including moves styled after a Shoryuken uppercut.

Creator Hatake / Furukawa built it with M5Stack and UnitV2 hardware, combining text entry with a stress-relief punching interface.

ファニトロちゃん:ハイテンション

Every bit of typing now requires punching a cushion. Flick input has somehow grown from a fingertip gesture into a full-body sport.

Details: はたけ / Furukawa / ProtoPedia ↗

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