Bazibär

Bazi-Bär accompanies the children during their journey (:
Work in progress..
Gadgets
Can you please give me the firehose and the ladder?
Perfect, we have the right items in.
Congratulations, now we can rush and help the people!

We started with a challenge from Curiox and wanted to create a toy, that allows children to dive into different worlds: they can experience adventures with firefighters, learn about animals that live in the woods and much more.

Our playing figure "Bazi-Bär" accompanies the children during their journey, the adventure begins when you put a hat on the figure, e.g. a firefighter helmet or a Robin Hood hat. The special thing about "Bazi-Bär": The children can interact with him.

We are a multi-competence team of 5 people: A Programmer, an electronics engineer, a mechanical engineer, a linguist and a journalist. Everyone of us contributed a part to create this product: We build a physical neutral character (a teddy bear) and put some technology in it: a Raspberry as a central computing unit, NCF sensors that can detect different hats, that the bear can wear, as well as gadgets that the child presents to the bear. There is also a small projector in it, that keeps the bear cute and without a display.

By putting a hat on the bear, a specific game starts. Putting on a firefigther helmet for example starts a projected picture of an empty fire truck. Presenting the right physical gadgets (that have also an NFC tag in it), results in a congratulation and an appearance of that gadget in the scene.

We have been consequent in how to ran through a project real quick: Starting with the story and the customers need, identifying our team competences, hiring the missing competences and start hacking together to ran a MVP.

We learned that our toy is for children, which have basically no idea how to use complex technology. The biggest challenge and learning was to think as a child. The goal was to make the product so simple and self-explaining that this technology is just a way to have fun.

Next step is to make it as robust as possible and further explore different worlds.

https://github.com/tsunaBoy/hackaburg2024.git