A "hands-on" prototyping offering for young learners who want to discover how to create the way they play.
Build then plug the USB cord into any computer device and launch the Piperlab web portal to be immersed in a world of narrative-based critical thinking.
The hex based modular pieces are all about developing young learners’ critical thinking skills & confidence with problem solving, endless rebuilds, a do it yourself blueprint and no failure, tolerance-fit pieces.
With the stand alone power of the microcontroller, the controller can be used with any web enabled device to connect to Piperlab.
Design principles of CHARISMATIC TOOLS — MODERN TACTILE — RETRO LITE guided the 3 month iterative, rapid development of the modular controller, just in time for a rigidly set manufacturing date.
To quickly identify the gaps we could successfully fill, I scheduled week-long sprints of in-home interviews, classroom observations and STEAM market landscaping.
To help our team of designers, engineers, and animators explore the entire range of opportunity areas we mapped out during research, I blocked daily hackathons and brainstorms.
With no time to waste, we down selected the concepts through a school quality-testing program I set up and used rapid refinement cycles to realize the final design.