Fortune on Hand

Using a webcam, Arduino, Javascript, Fortune on Hand is an installation that generates a poem about one's fortune' base on their own unique palm lines. The machine has a transparent acrylic platform that allows the users to put their right hands on it, when the button is pressed, a picture of the palm will be taken by the hidden webcam under the platform. After the analysis by Javascript, a generated poetry will be printed out that tells the 'fortune'.

Inspired by the great Chinese literature The Dream in Red Chamber written in Qing Dynasty, in which the main character Baoyu had a dream about a book in sky palace called “Great Void” that has everyone’s fate was written in poetry. I wonder if the development of technology makes people less superstitious, or the technology itself has become a form of superstition?

Tools: Javascript, Mad Mapper, Arduino, OpenCV