Boogie Boots were created as part of a group assessment task for a Tangible Media class at QUT. We responded to the question "How can we use movement to create sound in a joyful and meaningful way through a wearable device?".

Inspired by 1950s fashion and dance, we created a shoe that plays varying sounds in response to the users movement. Appropriating the movements of a vinyl record, the shoe changes in pitch in response to the heading direction of the user, and stops playing if the user tilts their foot upward.

As a Interactive & Visual Design and Computer Science double major student, I collaborated with the group on the design of the shoe and led the technical aspects. This included creating the circuit and programming the Arduino Nano. I adapted the functionality of a theremin to create an unconventional instrument using movement. Mapping yaw orientation degrees to frequencies in a 360 loop replicated the rotation of a record.