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Sally the Starfish

Interactive Toy

The purpose of this project is to provide schools or public educational spaces like the Queensland Museum new ways to educate children to the negative effects of physically handling Starfish. The Arduino development platform will be utilised to best produce the required interaction. Thus, providing a fun user experience that fulfils the specified demographic (5-10 years old) needs and wants through this new and innovative interactive toy.

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This is for the children to be educated, SALLY the STARFISH will implement realistic functionalities of a Starfish to give the full experience. Starfish have grippy suckers that they use for gripping or movement. Their suckers have been added to our model to create an interesting aesthetic feature.

In addition, LED’s have been included to simulate the eyes that starfishes have on their arms. Starfish also are covered in a thin tissue. This thin tissue allows gasses to move through it easily. This is why if a starfish is lifted out of the water the air can be detrimental to their livelihood.

 

This design acts on this concept by providing a game like interaction that encourages a child to not touch the starfish.

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