Design, Coding, Fabrication

Design, Coding, Fabrication

Saga

Saga

Saga

Description

Saga is a voice-enabled, interactive, choose-your-own-adventure bedtime storyteller designed using force sensors, servo motors, Raspberry Pi and the Google Cloud Speech API. Saga has a 3D printed tome cover, laser cut pages, aluminum details and a silicone gem with embedded LEDs.

Project Details

Project Details

Project Details

Date: October 2019


Collaborators: Sophia Batchelor, Dylan Arceneaux, Stephanie Daffara

My Contributions: software engineering (speech-to-text voice interactivity, story path logic and Raspberry Pi, force sensor-servo motor interaction), ideation and design, fabrication and assembly

Detailed Documentation and Process

Motivation

Motivation

Motivation

Bedtime stories are important for children’s literacy, language and moral development; it’s how we’ve passed on knowledge since the beginning of time. Getting children to bed can be a long process for parents. Sometimes, “just one more story” lasts forever. Saga is the ultimate bedtime storyteller and a world kids can explore. It gets children involved in stories and books through it’s choose-your-own-adventure stories. Allowing children to choose what the character should do next with both small decisions to increase their vocabulary, and large ones that have moral lessons attached to them.