Walking Tutor is a learning floor for disabled children

Play and learn has been a symbolic mechanism that people around the globe use to train and educate children. Because all work makes them dull, recreation is must. The electronic tiled floor dubbed the Walking Tutor is another such innovative game, but with a tad difference – this is a learning project for disabled children to practice their walking skills. Developed by a team of engineers from B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology in Hubli, India, this is a system interfaced with a square grid of tiles.

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Equipped with a microcontroller with code encrypted to carry out the desired operations, the system requires a child (in his phase of learning) to walk the grid. Each block on the grid, courtesy a predefined algorithm lightens up, as stepped onto. After each step the child is instigated to make the second to see the light glow, and thus in this game of step and light the unfortunate child is playing as he learns to walk.

This project, for its brilliance was adjudged one of the winning entries in IEEE’s Presidents' Change the World Competition.

Via: KulkarniKarthik/Medgadget