WhisperMailbox Overview

Purpose:

From the #ArtProject community, this is a piece for the Doge-Ethereum Bridge art installation that is connected to the Blockchain. The installation, designed by Jessica Angel and Sponsored by TrueBit, will be a Klein Bottle structure that will fit around 40 people and be on display for about one year. The considered location for the bridge is the Hinge Park (Olimpic Village) as part of the Vancouver Bienale 2018. This repo is meant to be a place where we share everything we have done to build this piece of the installation, sponsored by Status, so that it may be replicated by you, the reader. Here are some preview pictures of what the overall structure will look like; to be clear, the Whisper Mailbox will be a key interactive piece inside of this structure.
Eagle-Eye View of the Installation

WhisperMailbox Hallway

Human Interaction:

A visitor to this piece will be met with a funnel that may remind them of their playground days, like this:

The idea is, humans will whisper their deepest, darkest secrets into the Ethereum blockchain network using the Whisper Protocol through this funnel. You can read more about how Whisper works here: (https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Whisper).

Expected Result:

As a message is "whispered" into this piece of the installation, the sound will be converted into a 10-bit binary to an expecting Whisper Network node (RPi3) which will activate a series of programmable LEDs events throughout a main hall of the structure. These LEDs will represent the percolation of the message data throughout each node on the Whisper Network, until it has reached it's "destination".
Perhaps talk more about the topics logistics; @Ivan
Check out the spec sheet for details on the pieces we used to build this.

Current Contributers:

• Ivan: Status Engineer;
• Matt: Blockchain Engineer and XLNT Person; he's around to build/maintain the Ethereum network that the whisper mailbox uses
• Andy: Status Engineer;
• Lindy: Creative Technologist; She's here to advise and help make sure it all happens and to integrate it with the rest of the sculpture
• Océane: Incoming grad student at the MIT Media Lab; Working on hardware and the analog-digital stuff
• Jessica: Installation artist; Director of the Doge-Ethereum Bridge art installation and designed modular pieces that can be arranged in different ways for the LED hallway  

Update 4.1.18

We're going to Ethereal! Makers, artists, and programmers interested in creating installation art prototypes and interactive experiments between art and blockchain, are invited to join the Maker Space and get their projects considered to be displayed inside the Doge-Ethereum Bridge Art Project.

• When? May 11–12, 2018
• Where? The Knockdown Center, Queens, NY