Dream Dial

Justin M

Installation (Unattended)

Time

TBD

Location

TBD

Dream Dial is an interactive story recording and playback kiosk in the shape of a retro touchtone phone. The idea is to share your dreams — be they hopes for your future, actual sleeping dreams, or something in between.

Dream Dial was originally built for the Portland Winter Light Festival 2020 and was on display and used in February 2020. Turns out that just after that, shared, public, face-adjacent devices really fell out of favor!

I built Dream Dial from the casing and audio internals of a vintage executive desk phone, a Raspberry Pi with custom firmware, addressable RGB LEDs, dimensional lumber, an old Epson POS receipt printer, and ABS and acrylic plastics.