really my name is jason haver and I'm
part of the unnecessarily high time so
the unnecessarily high five is an hour
project that we brought that has
mannequin arms dangling at progressively
higher heights and it challenges
participants to come and see how high
about five they can give the highest
five is unnecessarily high nobody has
ever hit the highest five well my my
friend and I who we call ourselves the
irresponsible dads of Alameda decided
that we wanted to create an art project
that would allow people to interact with
it and just have a lot of fun we are
brainstorming some ideas and then we
thought about the fact that how many
high fives people give and how some high
fives are totally unnecessary and we
said you know what let's build an
unnecessarily high five let's build a
device to help these people give higher
fives and give the highest five they can
give and we wondered how high could we
make the highest five and we've
definitely made it to the point that
it's never been hidden so once we
decided what kind of device we wanted to
build we sourced some mannequin arms and
we found some flat palms mannequin arms
which are sort of the golden arm of a
high five and so we took those arms and
we decided and we use those as the basis
for the whole whole device and when you
look at it really the way that it's put
together is it's built of two-by-six
frame that that we're all the arms are
dangling from and the arms are connected
to frame using some conduit and
connected to them in a very special
secret way in addition to that we've
actually this year for maker faire we
added some light blue beams that we're
using as our sensors that are wireless
Bluetooth sensors with accelerometers to
track how frequently each high 5 has
been hit and then I'm taking that data
into the node-red software and I'm
analyzing it and creating a living
infographic well initially we built the
unalloyed high-five to bring to Burning
Man but we decided to bring it to maker
faire the next year and and we really
loved having it in paper
brings it to a different type of
audience brings it to a lot more kids
and a lot younger audience and I
personally love seeing kids interact
with it love watching the smiles on
their faces they try to hit the highest
fives this year we actually added a new
arm we're calling arm 0 that's the high
five for everybody it's extra low
because we had a lot of small children
who were trying to hit the the lowest
hand and it was just way out of reach so
this year we decided we wanted to add an
arm for them but it's notably lower than
the other so