Kid Sounds
A Rasp Pi with a webcam and a few scripts creates a very nice, child-friendly media player.
Creating a child-friendly audio player with the Raspberry Pi
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Small children often listen to music and audio books with a childproof CD player made out of tough plastic. The CDs themselves are much less resilient to breakage. Grabbing a disc a few too many times can scratch and ruin it. Luckily, a nifty child-friendly music player put together using a Raspberry Pi and a webcam makes for hours of problem-free listening pleasure.
Design Thinking
This particular problem presents an opportunity to experiment with Design Thinking, which embodies a method of solving problems through innovation. Essentially, the methodology consists of working through four questions. What is the problem? What would happen if? What produces a wow effect? What works?
With the help of the "users" in the playroom, it was easy to identify the problems: Cassettes turn into tangled bundles of tape, CDs get scratched up and misplaced, and the user interface of MP3 players is too challenging. Therefore, it was necessary to find a new user concept.
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