This was our finished product. A wooden pig, treated with fat soap, with the Tikitag reader embedded (you can see the usb cabel sticking out the back instead of a tail) and four poking tools: the Apple (eating sounds), the branding iron (squeeling), the feather (pig laughing, can you believe it?) and the hand (regular pig oink oink). The handle of the poking stick has a spring in it to fake the sensation of poking something soft such as a pigs flesh.

This was our finished product. A wooden pig, treated with fat soap, with the Tikitag reader embedded (you can see the usb cabel sticking out the back instead of a tail) and four poking tools: the Apple (eating sounds), the branding iron (squeeling), the feather (pig laughing, can you believe it?) and the hand (regular pig oink oink). The handle of the poking stick has a spring in it to fake the sensation of poking something soft such as a pigs flesh.

After sanding the pig we cut it along the long axis before milling a space in its belly for the Tikitag RFID reader.

Sanding the pig to make it look nice…

Cutting the outline of the pig in the wood workshop

We wanted to use the old style wooden toy esthetic to make a contrast to the high tech involved. We also found that the wooden toy gives the sense of something really robust, whereas we usually treat digital technology quite carefully.

So we started with making the outline of the pig.

We wanted to use the old style wooden toy esthetic to make a contrast to the high tech involved. We also found that the wooden toy gives the sense of something really robust, whereas we usually treat digital technology quite carefully.

So we started with making the outline of the pig.

This idea is a take on the traditional attach-a-tail-to-the-pig. Our version uses a reader for poking and tags placed different places on the pigs body to give different sounds, like slobbering, bacon frying, running, excited sounds or farting, as feedback.

We chose this idea to work further with, but changed it a bit through the process.
We ended up with a concept where the reader is in the pig, and the tags in different poking tools. The different sounds played when poking reflect what kind of tool is used to poke with.

This bird droppings idea has the reader in the bird and the tags attached to small figures. The bird is attached to a string hung in the ceiling. The idea is that you should drag the bird to the sides, and when letting go of it try to swipe by on or more of the figures. There would be an animated feedback counting who’s been shit on the most times.