This week Exploring Senses started our collaboration with fellow Prestamax House neighbours Mascot.
http://m.asc-mascot.com
Mascot is a help group organisation for people diagnosed on the Autistic Spectrum and their family members. The organisations focus is towards children and young people.
Exploring Senses plan to develop a partnership program with Mascot, and today's Robotic Tou Hack workshop with Bill is the start!
Bill is the son of Sam who runs Mascot. The Exploring Senses crew met Bill a couple of weeks ago. Bill approached us with a toy he wanted to donate to Exploring Senses for Toy Hacking.
The toy was a Spy Gear radio controlled car. The Spu Gear is a very neat devise as it's user centred design system of onboard web cam and head up display provide a fun augmented low cost DIY experience for the cars controller.
We thought it would be a good idea if Bill was involved in the Toy Hack so we asked him to think about some ideas for a hack.
Yesterday Bill suggested we fuse the Spy Gear with a giant teddy bear. We discussed how we could integrate the two toys, and how it might be cool to extend it reach of the cars onboard webcam.
Check out the images of the build process below;
The results are very exciting, and we can see a Bear Borg series in the making, possibly 7 of 9.....for any Trekkie Fans out there!
The bear robot is a symbol of robotic cuteness. Bear robots have stared in cartoons such as the Thundercats. The Burbuls staring in this series were cute robotic tinkerers who constructed, hacked and repaired technological devises and were allies to the supreme Thundercats. Check out the series and enjoy more Bear Bots in the near future.
Arts Council
Bespoke CommuniToy
Robotic CommuniToy
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