{"id":9070,"date":"2024-05-06T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T09:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brojka2026.local\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2024-05-27T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T11:01:18","slug":"retrobit-krv-znoj-digitroni-i-prosirena-stvarnost-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brojka.hr\/en\/retrobit-krv-znoj-digitroni-i-prosirena-stvarnost-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobit: Blood, Sweat, Calculators, and Augmented Reality (AR)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Retrobit multimedia exhibition of digitrons is a project that Brojka worked on for about 9 months and really broke a sweat. First of all, because we spent part of 2023 abnormally hot summer in a gallery without air conditioning or windows, but also because we had to conduct research on historical facts, create the exhibition concept, design the entire graphics layout, website, animations, AR content, and much more. We must not overlook the fact that the project initiators, Retro Info – Association for the Preservation of IT Heritage<\/a>, brought a full load of exhibits that needed to be logically arranged in a gallery with limited space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The word “digitron” in the exhibition title is used as an eponym for all digital pocket calculators, and since the exhibition is set up in the Orsola City Gallery in Buje, the city where the Digitron factory produced the db 800, the first European digital pocket calculator in 1971, the word naturally imposed itself. However, as you can notice, it is written with a lowercase “d” because the exhibition showcases not only Digitron calculators but also other calculating machines from various historical periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The graphic layout of the exhibition provides a historical overview of the development of calculators, from abacus to bulky and heavy mechanical and electromechanical ones, all the way to the most advanced digital calculators. The QR codes placed on the posters lead you to a website that offers a bunch of additional entertaining and educational information about calculators used in space missions, the importance of Digitron Factory for the development of the entire Buje region, the prices of calculators that used to cost almost as much as a new car, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDigitron with a small “d”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nGraphic layout<\/h2>\n\n\n\n