The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book - Projects_Book_v4

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e have all imagined what

it would be like to be

somebody else, even if just

for a short time.

Tele2 is one of the more

intriguing projects we’ve come

across. It was a custom Raspberry

Pi electronics kit worn by various

interesting people from around the

world. Each person wore a GoPro

Hero 5 and Røde Video Microphone

to capture a first-person view of

what they were seeing and hearing.

Projects SHOWCASE

How a Raspberry Pi kit helps people to live the life of a complete stranger

> The Tele2 kit

was used in

five different

countries

> The idea came

from the movie

Being John

Malkovich

> 36 million

people were

made aware of

the project

> A custom iOS

app was used

to control the

data stream

> The equipment

was in use for

more than two

months

Quick

Facts

TELE2

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The Teradek VidiU enables the kit

to stream live video to the web

via the Tele2 modem

ALVIN GROEN

Alvin is a director, designer, and

animator from The Netherlands.

Currently, he lives in New York.

alvingroen.com

More intriguingly, the

system collected data on each

personality’s heart rate and

sweat level.

All of this data was used to

measure the emotional state of

the person, which was relayed to

the viewers using visual effects

layered on top of the audio and

video. Brain sensor (EEG) data

was translated into warmer or

cooler video filters to represent the

person’s emotions.

We caught up with Alvin Groen,

the director and designer of the

Tele2 project, who dreamt of

building a piece of equipment that

“changes our perspective.”

The Tele2 project is named after

the Swedish telecom company that

sponsored the project. “They were

launching a new 100GB data plan

and wanted a project that required

high data bandwidth,” recalls

Alvin. With funding underway, the

Tele2 project was born.

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An e-Health v2.0 board is mounted

above a Raspberry Pi 3. The Pi

collects the video and audio data, as

well as the health measurements

The Galvanic Skin Response

Sensor, Polar Bluetooth HR

monitor, and Muse headband

all gather data on the emotional

state of the wearer

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