Bistro by Mastercard is a new experience for international travelers on the Italian Food Street of the boarding area E of the Leonardo da Vinci airport (Rome). Passengers are surprised by a combination of Italian culinary quality and cutting-edge technologies. It is the first cashless restaurant designed to offer a food experience in the name of the Italian culinary tradition with particular attention to the Roman one and, at the same time, to experiment with the most innovative technologies that will revolutionize the experience of Italian and international travelers. Waiting for the flight is transformed into a unique experience, thanks to the self ordering and cashless fast payment services. The interactive Priceless Touch Table is a solution designed to transform the experience of waiting for the next boarding not only faster, thanks to the contactless payment technology directly integrated into the table, but also more fun, thanks to the interactive screen available of diners. Browsing through the multiple contents of the table, the guest can thus order the dishes on the interactive menu, learn more about the chef’s philosophy by learning all his secrets and have real-time updates on his flight, the boarding gate, the weather of the destination city. […]
Here it is a brief description of the workflow we followed to build up the installation. STEP ONE – Shoot the path. Use a good camera (we used a GOPRO cam that allows a beautiful wide angle video), a steadycam if you want your videos to be more stable, and bring with you a lot of patience. 🙂 Once you have one or more videos with your path you have to stabilize them (we used After Effects CS6 warp stabilizer) and create a single long video. For a good video you must take into account: The speed must be constant throughout the path. The vanishing point of the street must be at the center of the frame. The horizon must be at the same level. STEP TWO – Build up the bike Ok, let’s start the fun! We used: a bike (really? 🙂 ) an Arduino Ethernet (or a Arduino + Ethernet shield) a bike speedometer an IR sensor (we used one from Sharp IR sensors family) cables a Mac (with Quartz Composer) The bike speedometer is actually a simple button: usually there are two wires, one for power and the other one attached to the other end of the […]
