Gammy Builder
An avatars builder for children

2014

This is my bachelor degree project: an interactive physical board that allows to create digital avatars. After building a brand identity for a fictional primary school based on a gamification system (the Game Oriented Institute), with three collegues, we designed a learning renforcement system that visualize the peculiarity of each kid through avatars. We decided to fabricate an interactive board connected to a monitor that allows children to play with a physical environment while they are customizing their own digital alter-ego. The board has been fabricated with a lasercutting machine (the design is based on primo's blueprints) and the software developed with 4v from scratch. The circuit that allows the software to recognize each piece is a simple voltage divider made with arduino.

In collaboration with: Lorenzo Tempesti, Vittorio Bonfatti and Leonardo Grassi.
Special thanks to Matteo Loglio that helped us with a lot of advices while he was developing Primo.

board

The video of the first prototype, video by Vittorio Bonfatti