status — phase 01 is installed and has run live sessions. phases 02 and 03 were built on my own initiative, tested on a bench rig, and have not been installed.
a departmental teaching project — several teams of students and faculty building an escape room from scratch, to open to the public.
the room and its props had been designed and built over several semesters. the final puzzle called for physical computing, which sat outside what the course covered, so my supervisor asked whether I would take that piece on. I joined to build it, and it went into the room.
the two phases after it came out of watching that one run: what it would take to operate reliably during a session, and what it could become if the rest of the room could hear it.