LEGO MIDI Box inspires 5+ year old to grow on basic music knowledge by providing them with fun activities and creative learning experience.
An innovative solution to attract younger generation in learning music.
Since music instrument requires lots of rules to learn. Beginner would give up on learning them once they are tired of not playing anything soon and tired of learning complicated theory.
90% of children who have taken music lessons are on average 5 IQ points higher than their peers
- A study by E. Glenn Schellenberg at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, as published in a 2004 issue of Psychological Science
88% kids music toys are providing un-organized thinking process.
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87% of teachers and parents believe children should learn instrument as early as possible.
- NAMM survey conducted in January-February 2015
At the end of 2017, research showed that hybrid technology and musical instruments were the biggest trend in the instrument market.
-Top 4 Emerging Trends Impacting the Musical Instrument Market Until 2020: Technavio
Age 6 to 9 is the best age start to learn music instrument.LEGO MIDI targets on age 5 will be a good period to start to introduce music theory to our target user.
The product should make friendly connection both functionally and visually with user.
The product should guide kids having organized thinking process and composing process.
Expanding story telling into kid’s musical play for them to learn concept in time, rhythm, melody and form.
The product should lead kids to understand fundamental music components through effective input to the play.
How might we using kids loved tone to inspire kids and shape with the basic knowledge in music. Using cartoon character with imaginative story to covert abstract music theory into vivid contents, lower kids learning curve to accumulate confidence and provoke their interests.
Leverage LEGO Part Designer for the conceptualization and design of the overarching aesthetic and structural layout, while employing SolidWorks for the precision engineering of unique MIDI module components.
To make the brick scanning process more accurate, we use colorfulplastic with transparence to design a set of music notes brick.
When use Mario scanning the stacked notes brick, light will pass through the colorful transparent brick, overlaid color will be recognized by Mario color sensor.
We use color as the language to help kids make connection with the music notes.
If user want to create more complicated note, They can stack few notes on top of each others. LEGO Mario brick scanner will sense what notes user created.
The notes can be play for longer duration if user pick a longer brick.
After user manage how to use the notes brick, they can started to compose a harder song by combining different color and different duration of notes.
Usage Introduction
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