Student Names: Jack Courington, Chapin Galowitz, Tony Nhan, Nam Anh Nguyen, Alvina Salim
Project Name: Rainbow Records
Course Name: PDES 3711/5711 Spring 2022 | Product Innovation Lab
Course Instructor: Barry Kudrowitz
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Rainbow Records is a spinning, modular xylophone toy for children aged 4 and above, innovating the way xylophone music can be played. The toy comes with 28 musical keys, a removable mallet, song cue cards, and a bottom storage to hold unused keys. With Rainbow Records, the user can arrange the musical keys into the 14 available slots on the top panel of the toy and create a melody of their choosing, or they can follow the complementary color-coded song cue cards and play popular children's tunes such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. To play melodies hands-free, the user can just keep the mallet in its slot and spin the central knob either forward or backward. To play melodies manually, the user can remove the mallet from the base. Rainbow Records helps users play music with more creativity and enjoyment.
ABOUT THE COURSE
A hands-on experience in integrated product design and development processes. Elements of industrial design, engineering, business, and humanities are applied to a semester-long product design project. Cross-functional teams of students in different majors work together to design and develop new consumer product concepts with guidance from a community of industry mentors. During this semester the teams of students worked with Plan Toys.
