Astro Pup: An interactive, musical, space adventure

Faculty: 
Jim Budd
Students: 
Alison McKenna, Christa Lee

This educational toy concept helps teach children visual-spatial cognitive skills and logical-mathematical reasoning through interactive music creation. Build from LegoMindstorms, the project explores the tool's applications in early-stage interactive concept development for designers.

Lab: 
Director: 
Jim Budd
Faculty: 
HyunJoo Oh, Sang-won Leigh, Noah Posner, Wei Wang, Matt Swarts,
Students: 
Ceara Byrne, Chris Chen, Himani Deshpande, Mika Munch, Savanthi Murthy, Akash Talyan, Hank Duhaime, Hongnam Lin, Lizzy Fristoe, Ollie Hsieh, Prabodh Sakhardande, Santiago Arconada, Shihui Ruan, Tae Prasongpongchai, Tanuja Swant

The Interactive Product Design Lab (IPDL) is a purpose-built lab designed to support both teaching and research by allowing students to investigate, explore, and experiment with an extensive array of new technologies. Central to this concept, the School of Industrial Design has placed a high priority on the need to foster and develop interdisciplinary, team-based collaboration with other educational and research units from across the campus, including the School of Interactive Computing, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the Graphics Visualization and Usability Lab (GVU), and the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA). The Interactive Product Design Lab was built in the summer of 2011 and opened in time for the 2011 fall semester.

http://www.id.gatech.edu/research/labs