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Alphabet Learning Toy for Kids - Blog#1: Introduction

taifur

This is my first blog for "At The Core Design Challenge". Sorry for my late starting. Due to my personal problem I could not start writing on time. Thanks to Element14 and Infineon for choosing me as one of the official challengers for the contest and sending me the challenger kit. The challengers kit for this "At The Core Design Challenge" is PSoC 62S4 pioneer kit (CY8CKIT-062S4) which is a low cost low power dual core PSoC 62 dual core microcontroller board. It has 150-MHz Arm® Cortex®-M4 and 100-MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ cores with 256KB of Flash and 128KB of SRAM.

What I am going to make?

I have a 4.5 years kid. One thing that I have learnt from my kid is that kids like to learn with playing. My kids find better interest when she see alphabets on my computer screen with different color and sound rather than on the book page. From my observation I realize I should build a device that will show the Alphabets with different color and play the sound. She will touch some buttons and this magic will happen. I think it will help her to learn the Alphabets very quickly.

I will utilize two cores of the PSoC 62 microcontroller for my task. I will use CM4 core for driving the display and playing the sound. CM0+ core will be used to read the capsense button and sending the instruction to the CM4 core.

Picture of my idea:

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Hardware I will use

  1.  PSoC 62S4 pioneer kit (CY8CKIT-062S4) 
  2.  CY8CKIT-028-TFT Display Shield or Waveshare 2.8 inch TFT Touch Shield (not sure yet)
  3.  Speaker & Amplifier
  4.  SD Card module
  5.  3D Printed Case (if time permits)

Software I will use

  1. ModusToolbox 3.0
  2. Eclipse IDE for ModusTollbox

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