Kickle: A Voice Controlled Educational Toy

What is your project about?

Kickle is an educational toy, that is intended to be accessible to every kid, irrespective of their physical condition.

Recently while going scrolling through facebook, i came across a video of a boy who had no arms or legs. The boy's determination and unwillingness to give up really moved me.

A quick search on the internet made me realize that there were several cases of kids in similar situation. However, when i searched the web for products for these kids, i was disappointed to find that there were not many products catering to the needs of these kids.

Hence, i decided to make the use technology to build a solution to this problem.

How does it work?

There are two main components associated with Kickle. The first is the voice interface part. And the second is the hardware associated with it.

For the voice interface, i have made use of Amazon Skills kit, to build the skill for the project. This then communicates with the Amazon Web Services and that finally sends the requested command to controller on the hardware part.

Demo

Features

1. Basic Directions: left, right, forward, backward

2. Free Mode: Obstacle avoidance Mode

3. Shapes: Circle, Square, Triangle, rectangle

4. Counting: up to 100

Kickle - Version 2.0

Kickle Version 2.0 is under development and expected to be finished by mid - june, which would include voice controlled color commands that will allow to change the color of led's.