Our Progress

Original Edboard

To the right is the original EdBoard with a story card inserted under the bread board. You can see how the parts of a normal circuit board have been blown up to be more kid friendly, in that they are safe and easier to use while the children are developing fine motor skills. This board is just connected to the battery, so if a student wanted to expand their knowledge of coding in any way, it would be almost impossible.

First Prototype

To the left is the first iteration of our Stand-Alone Shield design. You can see that it currently has to be hooked up to an Arduino to change any of the coding, which is what we are hoping to avoid by connecting it to a shield-interface, so you can program the board directly. This would also happen if we were to connect the board to a Microbit. This cardboard prototype shows how we would like to "blow-up" the connected circuit board, though it is obviously not yet safe for children to use. This will come in future iterations of the project.

CAD Renderings

To the right are our current CAD renderings to see an idea of what our final project will look like. You can see the original EdBoard is still present, but we have added our Shield, which is removable to make it an optional part of the project. Our part is a PCB that can connect to a Microbit, or the shield it's self for easy access to coding learning for our students.

First PCB

In this iteration of our board you can see we accomplished what we originally asked to do. You can connect the Arduino and the Micro:bit, see the connections, choose how you want to build the board and connect the EdBoard+ to the EdBoard with magnets. This board is what we used to user test and helped us better connect the Micro:bit and make better magnetic connections.

Final Product

We are very happy with the current itteration of EdBoard+, pictured above. We are planning to give this final design to our client, so they can use it in their kickstarter. You can see how we added what we discovered were needed in user testing, and this design is fully functional.

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