For the final post, I decided to take a different approach: instead of showing the prototype in a typical documentation style, I drew inspiration from Vogue’s “73 Questions” video series. In those videos, celebrities are followed through their homes, answering rapid-fire questions while casually interacting with their environment. I thought it would be the perfect format to bring my interactive miniature room to life, showcasing the interactions while answering questions about the process in a fun and natural way.
This prototype has turned out to be so much more than I expected. I started this project without any prior experience with Arduino. What made this experience truly special was the freedom to experiment, to learn by doing, failing, fixing, and discovering. Because of that openness, I was able to explore Arduino, coding, and wiring not through dry instructions or rigid tutorials, but through play. It felt more like crafting a story than building a circuit. Each interaction I created, each sensor I connected, was a small moment of delight, a joyful, hands-on way to learn a technology that once felt intimidating.
There was something incredibly satisfying and poetic about weaving together the personal and the technical. Bringing this tiny room to life, with all its miniature details and hidden mechanisms, felt like a blend of magic and logic. It was both cute and clever, intimate and inventive and in the process, I discovered how technology can be not only functional but also deeply expressive.
What surprised me most was how well everything worked in the end. I was fully prepared for a “messy but functional” result, but instead, I got a cute, working, magical little room that I’m genuinely proud of, both technically and visually.
This video is both a demonstration and a little celebration of everything that came together in this project. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.
this is hilarious