Punching Bag Fountain

Tianrui Zhang - Mon 2 March 2020, 7:31 pm
Modified: Tue 3 March 2020, 4:16 am

Punching Bag Fountain

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What is Punching Bag Fountain?

Punching Bag Fountain is a large interactive music fountain that can be operated by multiple people. It consists of punching bags, fountains, and audio equipment. Its principle: The punching bags are connected to the fountains. When the punching bags are under pressure, the pressure value will affect the water pressure of the fountain. Different water pressures will affect the height of the water column emitted by the fountain. Below the fountain are floor tiles, each of which represents a different sound. When the water jets hit the ground at different speeds and strengths，water drops make different sounds at different locations. The strength of the water drops will affect volume.

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How to use it?

Put some punching bags next to the fountain. Each punching bag is connected to a fountain outlet. People can hit these punching bags at the same time. With hitting punching bags, different fountain outlets will spray water columns of different heights. When the water drops on the ground, it will make sounds and form music.

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Who I am designing for?

  1. People who want to create fun music show with friends.
  2. People who want to do exercise, they will find more fun in Punching Bag Fountain.
  3. People who want to watch or design the fountain show.
  4. People under pressure.

The sparkling point:

  1. Fun music：Anyone can use punching bags to create music freely.
  2. Cooperation：People can cooperate to play a piece of music. Users can experience the joy of cooperation.
  3. Exercise: Punching sandbags is a form of exercise. Combining this type of exercise with music creation and controlling fountains makes boring exercise fun and can attract people who are not interested in this sport to try it.
  4. Fountain show: multiple people control the fountain together, they can design a fountain show.
  5. Easy to use: Everyone can directly operate this facility without any training, everyone can quickly learn to use this installation.

Inspiration:

  1. A YouTube video about a music fountain show. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7hCeb_0T4g)
  1. A YouTube video about Desktop Punching Bag helps people relieve pressure.

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