Exhibit: How a Computer Works
Venue: Saudi Arabia’s Prince Abdulaziz Center for Science and Technology
Location: Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Date: Spring 2003
Client: Lunny
Contributors: Mystus – active components, programming, design, prototyping; Lord – project management, design, housing fabrication
Visitor Experience: This exhibit allows the visitor to explore the individual components that make up a computer. Each physical component can be chosen with a button, that component then appears on the computer screen. From there the vistor can click on individual parts of that component to learn further information about it’s function.
Client Requirements: The exhibits required concept interpretation, subsequent exhibit concept development, turn-key exhibits with working components, and full production including prototyping, exhibit housing, design, fabrication.
Mystus Expertise: The exhibits feature a wide range of Mystus products and services including concept development, prototyping, design, and full production including housing, on screen graphics, programming, and electronics.
Unique Features: This exhibit involved a unique synthesis of PC computer and external custom electronics.
*Project Challenges: The nature of this project required extensive prototype refinement to fine-tune the phenomenon and the visitor experience.