I made some sketches of what the installation will probably look like. Let’s start with the phone:
I’ll be using an older phone which will stand on a podium to be around counter height. This phone will be placed in a secluded area, which depending on the space in Hopkins, could still look a few different ways. Here, it’s drawn as a small room with a curtain. This will be figured out hopefully very soon.
The headphones will rest on a small bar connected to a wall. Next to the headphones will be a black box sitting on a podium, in which the raspberry pi responsible for loading the messages will reside. The box will be locked with a padlock, and the headphones will feed in through the top. It will probably be necessary to have a hole in the back of the box to supply power to the raspberry pi.
I found a button on amazon which comes with a case and which has to be twisted before it’s pushed. I think this would be a cool way to help hinder people who aren’t familiar with its function from pressing it. This way, it’s a little easier to assume that the button will only be pressed by someone who intended to erase all the messages.