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Travel to seven enormous worlds in your own starship, the Ebon Hawk. A streamlined user interface, custom-made for the iPad's touch screen, helps immerse you in the action. Help find R2-D2 and hidden blueprints to build a powerful secret starship!Test your skills in the galaxy’s most dangerous Podraces! Calling all rebel pilots: Design your own fighter pilot helmet... and save the Rebellion! Help Ezra, Zeb, Hera, Sabine, and Kanan strike back against Imperial forces in this action adventure game. Fly the Ghost across the galaxy and raid Imperial shipments for the growing rebellion!And his dad is Kickstarting it for him Remember the good ol' days of building spaceships out of Legos and vocalizing the sound effects? A "whoosh" here and a "pew pew" there? It was a great way to transform our toys into living, breathing machines, letting us recreate our favorite scenes from Star Wars or create new tales of our own. Chase Freedman, an eight-year-old from Georgetown, Mass., is taking that idea a step further with his invention called the Brick Sound Kit.
The kit is a programmable toy that snaps onto creations made out of Legos, Mega Bloks or other compatible building bricks and adds motion-activated sounds. And through the help of his father, Chuck—chief developer advocate at Intel's cloud group—the two are raising money for the commercial release of the toy on Kickstarter. (So far the campaign has raised nearly $4,200 out of the $18,000 goal.) Beyond giving people a new way to play with their creations, the Brick Sound Kit is also meant to encourage children to learn how to code and be more active when they play. Chuck Freedman and his son, Chase. (Courtesy of Chuck Freedman.) Speaking to BostInno on Monday, Chuck said his son first came up with the idea more than a year ago when the two were playing with a custom spaceship made out of Lego bricks and were challenging each other to make the coolest-sounding spaceship sound effects. At a certain point, Chuck said, he made a really cool sound effect, and Chase asked him if he could make that sound effect again—a feat that was attempted imperfectly.
That's when the lightbulb went on. "You know what would be great is if we could record our own sounds and have them play back when we move the ship," Chuck recalled Chase saying. So with Chuck's tech background and Chase's enthusiasm for making his own inventions—Doc Brown from "Back to the Future" is one of his heroes—the two built a prototype. After receiving a lot of positive feedback from friends and family, Chuck said, he looked into how he could help commercialize his son's invention and make it something that other people could use. The two ended up contracting the Boston University Electronics Design Facility to develop the kit's circuit board and Clear Design Lab of Boston to design the enclosure. The connection with BU was made possible in part because the school is Chuck's alma mater, he said. Because the toy was being developed locally, Chuck said, Chase was able to be involved in every step of the development process. "We've been working on it almost every evening since the first prototype," he said.
The first commercial version of the Brick Sound Kit is kind of shaped like a jetpack, with little wings on each side, and it has brick pegs on top and brick holes on bottom that lets you attach it to Lego creations. Using the kit's Sound Effects smartphone app, you can record sounds and assign them to different motions and three LED buttons on the back—made possible by the kit's custom Arduino board that comes with Bluetooth connectivity and a gyroscope. Part of what makes the Brick Sound Kit more than just a toy, Chuck said, is that he and Chase want others to be able to develop their own apps and games that connect to it. What's more, Chuck said, Chase wanted anyone to have the ability to tinker with the kit, so they added a USB port to the Arduino board that makes the entire thing reprogrammable. "The reason I was able to get BU and Clear Design Lab to work with us was this idea that it was going to excite kids to be more inventive, to become engineers themselves, to learn how to code," he said.
"This is the genesis of why I worked on this idea with him in the first place." After shipping out the first units of the Brick Sound Kit to backers next year, Chuck said, he and Chase plan to work on getting distribution deals with toy stores across the country and develop new versions. He said they would also like to work with existing "Lego camps" and build a community of people who develop new uses for the kit. "It's been a great father-son journey," he said. "It's been great to show Chase how you can go from an idea and turn it into reality."Here’s where the fun begins:Get instant notifications on big announcements, including trailer releases and movie newsTheme your app with Light Side, Dark Side, or Droid interfaces, each containing different designs, sounds, and animationsImmerse yourself in Jakku Spy, a first-of-its-kind serialized Google Cardboard Virtual Reality (VR) feature that ties directly to Star Wars: The Force AwakensUnlock 3D characters from Star Wars: The Force Awakens using a special Augmented Reality camera featureTake and share a Star Wars “selfie” with our selfie feature developed by Disney Research.
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