Periodically, it inserts fictional transmissions that sound like valid police transmissions but focus on envirnomental and corporate crimes not addressed by police actions. The microcontrollelr monitors whether a physical viewer has pushed a button. It then picks whether the viewer should hear a real or ficitional transmission. Web visitors type their words onto a web page. Users can pick any of 15 speech synthesizer personalities that fit with their words.
Samples are available at the web site.
The installation amplifies the sounds and sends them to the speaker located at the installation and then out to the street to whoever happens to be standing there. These toys flash lights, make police sounds and emanate voices when activated. I reverse engineered the toys to make them controllable by computer. Each pole also incorporates kinetic rotating or swinging elements and control electronics.