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Digital Whirligig is a groundbreaking interactive toy that bridges the digital and physical worlds, transforming and enriching a screen-based math learning interface with tactile, real-world play.
While millennials learned geometry by playing in the physical world, new generations of young learners rely on digital screens for education from the start. To bring tactile feedback and spacial imagination back to the learning experience, I used motion sensors to capture the physical movement of wooden toy blocks, and custom-coded a graphical interface that visualizes those spatial transformations.