![]() ![]() The pieces are colorful, easy to manipulate, unique, soft and click together to make some pretty awesome characters! That being said, all children need a little extra motivation at times and what better way to motivate a child than with technology! We have already told you that we love using our favorite gross motor apps and fine motor apps during our sessions. ![]() The OgoBild sets have been a staple in our therapy practice for awhile. OgoBild is a line of creative construction toys that promote hours of endless and open-ended, fun play! This toy, coupled with Animate It! Express Software results in an all-in-one kit for any child to begin to learn the basics of movie making through animation.Īll kids love to build and create. Recently, OgoSport emailed us to let us know about a giveaway that they wanted to host for their newest creation: OgoBild + Animate. ![]() The company motto is “Active Play for All” and it is spot on! The toys are awesome for promoting all kinds of child development skills from hand eye coordination using the OgoDisks to fine motor strengthening, bilateral coordination and manipulation using OgoBild. OgoSport is a team of seven, plus various occassional consultants.As pediatric occupational and physical therapists, we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the OgoSport brand. If a prototype is beyond the scope of their in-house equipment, they have an informal relationship with Pensa and an ongoing partnership with Shapeways. “We were trained in making it in the shop, by hand,” Kevin Williams, another cofounder, told us. Its founders all went to Pratt, so they like prototyping in house. The team tries to release a few new products each year. We learn from a failure for the next product.” “We’ll launch products that another company would never do. They take an iterative, failure ready approach to releases. The company has roughly 30 products available now, in 43 countries. ![]() We first encountered them at the Bldg92 “Making it in NYC” show, where we showed photos of Aero Zipp prototypes (a new device that makes it easy to throw a ball really far). OgoSport was founded in Red Hook in 2006, but the team has worked from the Navy Yard for the last two years. Makers in that community can also add their own designs or modify OgoSport’s. So much so, that it has begun releasing early designs on Thing-I-Verse to see what kind of reaction they get from the OgoBild community. “We want to incorporate technology in a meaningful way,” Jenie Fu, an OgoSport cofounder told Technically Brooklyn, meaning that a digital component only made sense if it deepened and expanded play and the creativity children put into it.ģD printing has become increasingly important to the company’s design staff, as it prototypes products. The goal is to get them to make their own creations as quickly as possible, and the team is working to build a site where users can share OgoBild animations. The set also comes with a workbook to give young makers some initial projects to try to begin learning what’s possible. The software is widely used in schools across the UK, according to OgoSport staff. It comes with lots more parts to give young makers a wider range of creations, but it also comes with a license that allows them to use Aardman Animations software to turn sequences of photos of their creations into great looking cartoons. OgoBild AnimateIt! is their new stop motion platform. It’s all about kids finding their own way. With wheels and legs as options, makers can definitely create things that look like animals or vehicles, but there is no prescribed structure. OgoBild is a set of toys that fit together to make all kinds of interesting, abstract shapes. Their most famous product is the OgoDisk, which can both be used like a frisbee and like a sort of tennis racket. OgoSport is known for products that encourage open ended play. What’s more magical than movies? A lot of kids probably think that making an actual story that can be shown in motion on a screen is out of their reach, but a Navy Yard company is about to release a project that will enable them to not only make their own stories, but their own animated stories. ![]()
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