The smartphone effectively becomes a "remote control" allowing the user to dim the lights, open the curtains and play the movies, using a combination of Arduino circuit and actuators connected to the Internet via an H bridge.
[11] The Curzon Memories App was selected to pitch in front of industry judges at AppCircus London Google Campus[12] and won the Media Communications and Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, MeCCSA 2012 Poster prize.
[13] The project was featured on BBC Radio 4's You and Yours[14] in an item on AppCircus where one of the jury, Facebook's Simon Cross said “You take the concept of what they did which is to bring the history of this old cinema to life, they could’ve stopped at videos and text, but connecting it to something physical such as a screen you can control from your phone, that’s a completely different experience … it just feels like you are connected to it, because your phone is controlling it … that feels pretty cool to me”.
There's a manual interface to access everything if you're not in Clevedon too",[15] Wired UK Magazine,[16] Film Studies For Free,[17] The Pervasive Media Cookbook,[18] Imperica.
[19] This app was developed as part of an academic research project based at the University of the West of England[20] to explore how new media can be used to enhance cinema heritage.