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This project is planned as a photobooth where a computer takes your picture and then draws it with a robot in a separate kiosk. The booth and kiosk are being designed in an Art Nouveau (primarily Paris Metro) styling with the goal of these being attractive objects on their own.

There are two overall parts to this poject, for now they are called the Système and the Boites.

Système

The Système is the design, development, testing, and installation of the systems of hardware and software that will capture an image, process it, and plot it.

The expected process is:

1. A Noisebridge booth operator removes the previous image from the plotting robot(s) and places a clean drawing board under it
   1. the drawing boards are pieces of paper affixed to a small board that can be reliably aligned under the plotting robot.
2. A person steps into the booth (the booth is already lit properly and an intercom is running)
3. They stand on a marked spot and face an indicated direction
4. They adjust the height of the camera
5. They make a face and press the "Press this to take a photo" button
   1. any questions the person has are answered via intercom
6. A booth operator verifies the photo and requests the person step out, via intercom
7. A booth operator, at the operator workstation, adjusts the image and sends it to the plotting robot kiosk
8. A plotting robot plots until it has finished plotting
   1. Booth operators chat with people about Noisebridge and prepare drawing boards
   2. If additional robots are being used and are available to print another person can start the photo process.
      1. How fast and how photos will be queued up are subject to testing before the show.
9. The finished drawing is given to the person
   1. The drawing is also quickly inspected to verfiy line quality
      1. The rate of pen replacement is pending testing
10. Hopefully the person saw the "donations for photos accepted", and puts some money in the kiosk
11. this process continues from roughly the beginning
    1. and booth operators of course are only to work as quickly as they feel like, take breaks often and take turns with other operators

Boites

The Boites are the booth and kiosk which will contain the Part One systems, provide the controlled environments in which they operate, and catch the eyes and interest of people.

Here is the initial idea for the two parts together.

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And here is the concept for the styling of the photo booth