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Smash Your Computer
If you haven’t wanted to smash your computer at some point you are neither a computer user nor hacker (and then how would you be reading this page?)
The goal for Smash Your Computer is to use the processing power of the computer to provide a cathartic simulation of its own destruction. The installation consists of a beige computer case in front of a projection screen and a foam rubber sledgehammer that the participant uses to hit the case. Sensors in the case determine the force and direction of the sledgehammer and drive a software physical model that is used to generate graphics of the case breaking apart. Hitting the case in a different direction or with a different force causes the simulated case to break apart appropriately.
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