We’ve seen Star Trek-inspired doors, TouchPad-enhanced microwaves, and Morse code Twitter transliterators made from Arduino microcontrollers, but how about something that can inspire children in emerging nations and give electronic waste a good use? That’s what Dhairya Dand’s ThinkerToy set of “educational fun interactive toys” are designed to do. There are four prototype models like the Keyano, which repurposes an old PS/2 keyboard into a piano with the help of an Arduino and a small speaker, and the Randomath, which presents kids with math problems on its LED screen and accepts inputs from an unused keyboard as well. The project gets a bit more ambitious with the Storynory audiobook player and TV++, the latter of which takes advantage…
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