The Parent Tech Online LT event was held online on 8 July 2020, organised by the Parent Tech Community and supported by Re+g (Replug)/Tay D.S. Inc. and babytech.jp.
Under the theme of 'Parenting x Technology', participants shared what they had tried and created themselves using apps and devices in a lightning talk (LT) format.
Event Summary
- opening
- Papa Smile Nagata: "What is BabyTech?
- Pentake, "Godforsaken in Makecode
- Shogo Tanaka: "I gathered data on my son's poop button, so I looked at it.
- Hiroto Yamakawa, "Get a head start in STEM, 3 years since my son was 4 and codespark Academy
- Shunsuke Kudo "Meichan Shistemu
- Mr. Replug, "Introducing Koropyuta
- after-talk
LT INTRODUCTION
Pentake, "Godforsaken in Makecode
Microsoft MakeCode Arcade, a block-based programming tool arcade.makecode.com We created a bullet-hell avoidance game with the help of the "God's Hidden Treasure". If you look at the screen, you'll see what's "hidden". The tool itself hasn't been localized into Japanese yet, but since it runs in a browser, you can use the browser's translation function to understand the meaning to some extent. We thought it would be a good way for parents and children to work on creating games together.
Shogo Tanaka: "I gathered data on my son's poop button, so I looked at it.
The device to record the excretion of the child who was born in October last year is SORACOM LTE-M Button Plus ( https://soracom.jp/products/gadgets/button_plus/ This is a project that I made with my own hands. It's a story about how they recorded the amount by pressing the button, notified it on line, and recorded it on Google spreadsheet to get statistics. The reason they created the device was to make it easier than a smartphone, and to be able to press it quickly when responding in the middle of the night.
Hiroto Yamakawa, "Get a head start in STEM, 3 years since my son was 4 and codespark Academy
She was surprised that her child could do so much at the age of four, and she didn't want to let the language barrier stop her interest in programming. CodeSpark ( https://codespark.com ), who told us that CodeSpark is a great tool for an introduction to STEM and the fundamentals of computing. Mr. Yamakawa's children have already created and published a number of games.
Shunsuke Kudo "Meichan Shistemu
When school was closed due to the coronavirus, we created a system using Raspy and Google's TTS for a child who had no sense of time and was in a state of Kuuneru Asobu. My eldest son, who likes to draw pictures, drew a character named Mei-chan and made her talk so that she wouldn't lose her sense of time. The father creates voice data every night so that he can set the next day's schedule and have her say something different every day. Even now, after the school holidays, he has become a member of the family who watches over the children's time.
