Put a letter down, hear its sound
Monty & Friends
An interactive RFID toy for kids aged 2–5 to learn words and letters: Dash the Dino, by the startup Monty & Friends.
LOG · WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES
Dash the Dino Alphabet Adventure is a screen-free toy for learning letters and their sounds: a child places letter pieces along a path, the toy reads each one over RFID and plays its sound, and the child says it back. The first version was a toy ambulance that read magnetic letter tiles.
WHY
A fun RFID project: I wanted to learn more about RFID.
WHAT I WORKED ON
Mostly firmware, but I was also involved in the electrical and mechanical design of the first version. Built on an Arduino Nano and a DFRobot MP3 player.
WHAT CAME OF IT
I believe it is out in the world, with a waitlist.
- OBJECT
- M25
- YEAR
- 2025
- CONTEXT
- Cornell Rev incubator
- CATEGORY
- work
- TYPE
- hardware + software
- STATE
- out in the world
- TOPICS
PLATES · 7
PLATE IDash on the alphabet path
PLATE IIDash reading the letters along the path
PLATE IIIThe pieces: path, letters and Dash
PLATE IVThe ice cream truck spelling snow
PLATE VThe ice cream truck and its letter tiles
PLATE VITrack pieces, letters and the truck
PLATE VIIThe first version: an ambulance spelling cap
MORE WORK HARDWARE
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