This year, our Walden Floor transformed into the PetroLoco gas station that has been the site of a battle between the oil oligarchs and the ecological fraction. Next to the floor and the usual interactive installations, you could also play real-life Tuxkart here.
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Palapa Floor @ Fusion Festival
For the last three years I’ve been part of the crew behind Fusion Festivals largest Floor: Palapa — a collectively built, ever-changing “city of the future” and dance floor. We turn a 1,200 m² tent into a dense skyline of handmade structures, layered light, and countless small details.
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The Palapian's Spaceship
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.
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Tux-Kart with Real-Life Powerups
First, there was the infamous PoolnudelschlagapparatPool Noodle Hitting Aparatus (PNHA). At Fusion Festival 2023, we had some pool noodles, some windshield wiper motors, and a wood construct to put a simple game into, so we did the only sensible thing to combine those things: You play Flappy Bird, and if you are too bad, you get hit with a pool noodle.
Afterwards, somebody mentioned that this would be great as an item in Mario Kart. As I knew there is an open-source clone of that - SuperTuxKart, an idea was born.
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In 2024, for our Walden Floor at Zugvögel Festival, the visitor was immerged into the crash site of an alien spaceship, featuring multiple interactive installations next to our usual dancefloor.
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Moyn Leierkasten
My Ticket to Moyn Festival 2023, a nice one-week-project involving building something nice out of scrap material as well as implementing the software using a Microcontroller and a Raspberry Pi:
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