Sandpit’s Rapid Prototyping & The Democracy Machine

This first prototype was developed by our project technical team, comprising some of our own staff and some from the client. It’s purpose is to define the functional boundaries of the hardware and software we’re looking to use.

In this case, that included:

• NFC (near-field communication) readers
• Raspberry Pis (Rpis)
• The Sandpit adaptive learning platform
• Card dispensers (to provide exhibition visitors with ‘voting’ cards)
• Allowances for further UX refinement of voting booths:
• Status LED
• Final physical triggers
• LED lighting
• Glowing effect

At the end of its development, which took approximately 2 weeks, we presented the working prototypes to the project creative team (again including a mix of our staff and the client’s) and received their detailed UX requests and prototype feedback.

This allowed us to finalise the broad hardware, software and platforms to be used, order what needed to be ordered, and start working with it all in earnest.

Originally published at https://www.wearesandpit.com.