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. [Read More]

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]

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.

[Read More]