As part of the MTFLabs partnership for the ERasmus+ project Open Minds, I developed a physical toolkit aimed at aiding participants to rapidly prototype ideas that would need hardware interactivity.
Open Minds is a European funded Erasmus+ programme for 18 to 30-year-olds.
It focuses on Design Education for Radical Inclusion and uses an innovative card game methodology for collaborative ideation as well as a specially-designed physical computing toolkit for prototyping in week-long creative innovation labs.
https://mtflabs.net/openminds/
The toolkit I developed was based around the Raspberry Pi Pico W. A great little microcontroller with tons of flexibility in what it can achieve. I wanted to find a way to use the kit in a more plug and play style, without the need for soldering or getting too bogged down in the function of each and every GPIO on the board.
I used KiCAD to design a PCB that included an LDR, Speaker, RGB LED, Vibration Motor, A button and also connectors for Servo style motors and two i2c connectors to make it easy to attach other sensors and outputs to.
Vulpes Labs 