Project case study
A loom that weaves a carpet from your patterns
The visitor lays pattern cards on readers and pulls a slider: a carpet is woven from the chosen ornaments on screen, followed by a film about the craftswomen.
- Client
- National Centre “Russia”
- Venue
- Travel Gallery, Moscow
- Completed
The challenge
Show a traditional craft so that visitors make something themselves instead of reading about ornaments.
What Awake! delivered
Five pattern cards are read by six Arduino readers over COM ports; the readers’ settings live in a config file, so the team on site adjusts them without a new build. In idle mode the loom highlights cards of one type and shows a 4 × 4 infographic card.
Outcome
It has been running in the Travel Gallery of the National Centre “Russia” since its launch in spring 2025.
Technologies and methods
Unity, Arduino card readers, physical slider