National Capital Exhibition touchscreens

Client: National Capital Authority, Canberra, Australia

I was the primary developer for four distinct in-gallery touchscreen interactives for the refurbishment of the National Capital Exhibition. It tells the story of Canberra as the capital city of Australia, and the touchscreens add a rich dimension to the exhibition narrative.

As part of this project I also built Chilly Bin, a configurable Electron app for displaying screen-based interactives in an exhibition scenario. Chilly Bin acts as a wrapper around any application or website, but allows for several configuration options including responding to remote events sent across a network connection.

Toolbox:

Vanilla JavaScript organised as Viewloader components, Middleman as a static website “back-end”, Electron for the Chilly Bin app, plus a healthy dose of well-crafted CSS.