The Briolight E interactive sandbox was introduced as one of Ukraine's earliest augmented-reality projection sandboxes with an extensive collection of educational and developmental support exercises.
For a long time, we offered an interactive sandbox with the popular “Landscape” mode. We then redesigned and improved it, creating a substantially updated product.
The Briolight E interactive sandbox includes at least 30 programmes suitable for kindergartens, schools and developmental support rooms.
Design and construction
The sandbox housing was redesigned in both its technical characteristics and materials.
Housing material: white laminated MDF. The earlier Briolight S model used particleboard, usually in a light wood finish, with custom colours offered for individual orders. Colour customisation remains possible, though bespoke manufacture increases delivery time. Laminated MDF takes longer to produce but has a refined appearance, a pleasant surface and a finish that can be wiped clean of sand and dirt.
Rounded corners: children, including wheelchair users and those sitting on chairs, may come into contact with the edges. Rounded corners help reduce risks. The modular construction also allows the height to be increased on request, which can improve access for wheelchair users.
Storage shelves: sandbox equipment includes animal figures (wild, domestic or marine), boats and small shovels. Specialists can add figures of people, imaginary creatures, dinosaurs and other items. Shelves in the lower cabinet keep these toys close at hand and help keep the room tidy.
Appearance: an African safari theme was applied to the housing to help it fit into children's rehabilitation rooms, primary classrooms and other spaces for children. Coloured lighting underneath the sandbox is controlled with a remote.
Software
The product was described as providing 30 interactive effects, including specialist and general-purpose activities.
Specialist effects include:
- Landscape: building land and sea, with animated waves and sound.
- Artefacts: searching for objects from different countries and historical periods, such as Greek columns, pirate ships, armour and spears.
- Build a City – Day: building towns accompanied by sounds of crowds and traffic.
- Build a City – Night: creating a town with the sounds of crickets, rainfall and quiet nighttime life.
- Treasure Chest: digging for hidden chests, encouraging fine finger movements.
- Mars: exploring a fictional Martian environment with a rover, rocket, astronauts and other objects.
- Moon: an astronomy activity using imagery based on a real satellite photograph of the Moon.
- Coral Reefs: a calming activity, requested by psychologists, in which children create terrain, grow corals and interact with fish.
- Ecology: finding waste materials such as plastic, cardboard and organic waste, and resources such as coal and gold; on-screen information discusses disposal methods and environmental facts.
- Naval Battle: a joystick-controlled game in which players try to sink each other's ships.
- Volcano: a visualisation of a volcanic eruption.
- Contour Map: using colours and contour lines to introduce geography and Earth's surface.
General-purpose effects: the original description additionally lists four active games (such as Squirrels and Air Hockey), 17 cognitive games (letters, numbers, syllables, emotions, plants and more) and two developmental support games (“Remember” and “Pirates”). These historical category counts should be checked against the current software specification.
For the complete list of games, contact the Briolight sales team by phone or messenger: +38 (063) 258-15-15, +38 (063) 103-35-35.
