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4-5 ARDUINOS (MEGA)

Development for City Power Grid has been a journey. The pandemic made it really difficult, but the power grid is so complex and there’s so many interesting facets of it! I’m grateful to my team for supporting and guiding me through the difficult time of developing exhibits for visitors, when there are no visitors.

Play the Online Prototype

Exploration 1 - Build and Power a Grid

Exploration 2 - Can you take down the grid?

REDUNDANCY CONCEPT

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Tower rendering and design by Kit Chow and Adam Prost

INSPIRATION

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Constellation Room in Meow Wolf Santa Fe

Screen-grab of Tales from the Loop on Amazon - a serendipitous power grid in the background — Screen-grab of *Tales from the Loop* on Amazon - a serendipitous power grid in the background

Exploration 3 - Can you Balance the Grid?

The final “idea iteration” was based off a Wind and Storage applet from the University of Illinois, but geared towards what in each of the consumer sectors uses the most energy.

Figure A (right): Realistic rendering of Sydney’s brain (dramatized)