Loop
Loop is a range of bespoke musical toys designed to help kids who have autism with self expression by enabling social and musical play between the kid and the therapist or their caregiver or even with other neurotypical or non-neurotypical kids.
Loop was built with the aim to enhance the capacity of expression using sound as a catalyst for non-neurotypical kids so that they can share their experiences with other non/neurotypical kids.
The project focuses on designing for play, happiness and achieving a therapeutic output (a key success metric for Loop). Loop also emphasizes the power of simple, low tech, tangible interactions.
Loop currently has 3 toys named: Spinny, Wobbly and Turny.
Technology used
Spinny - inspires an infinite loopy sound from its spherical shape and plays a drum loop that gets modulated when the gyroscope values of the arduino nano are changed by spinning.
Wobbly - the facets on this toy asks to be tapped around to play a twinkly sound. Here, the nano’s accelerometer readings are mapped to a piano synth playing p5.js sketch file.
Turny - an octagonal shaped toy that has each of its sides mapped to a different octave on a pentatonic major scale. Here again, the gyroscope readings are mapped to a p5.js sketch and the scale changes based on which side of the octagon is turned.
Know more about Loop here.
Reach out to Nitin at nitinsok@gmail.com
