The Confessional

 Posted on September 12, 2026  |  3 min

At Zugvögel Festival 2026, our floor became a church - and what is a church without a confessional? So I built one: a wooden confessional box where festival visitors confess their sins to an AI priest, who teases the juicy details out of them, grants absolution, and then sends them onwards to the Holy Toilet - where their sins, anonymized and retold in an angel’s voice, are played back to whoever is enthroned there at the moment. [Read More]
Festival  Zugvögel-Festival  Wanderzirkus  Hardware  Installation  Microcontroller  Raspberry Pi  Software  Python  LLMs  NLP 

The Palapian's Spaceship

 Posted on June 28, 2025  |  3 min  • Other languages: 🇩🇪 Deutsch

An interactive, networked spaceship you can actually board: players complete (or sabotage) missions across a dozen physical interfaces - buttons, joysticks, LED boards, sensors, etc - to either launch the ship or doom it, with everything driven by a Python/ESP/Unity stack. It’s modular, auto-resets regularly, and scales to festival crowds without manual babysitting. [Read More]
Hardware  Festival  Wanderzirkus  Raspberry Pi  Microcontroller  Fusion-Festival  Wanderzirkus  interactive-content  Unity  Software  Installation  3D-Prints  Python  C  CAD