LEGO Design+Build (2024)

Pop-up Installation Touring the US of A

  • Project: LEGO Design+Build interactive installation
  • Role: Lead Engineer, Technical Artist (team of 2 engineers, 3 artists)
  • Engine: Unity
  • Studio:  Wildlife Design
  • Platform: iPad, PC

For this pop-up installation, I created an application to allow users to customize a LEGO ship, and launch it into orbit, uploading and creating a shareable asset by QR code.

The network design requirements required 4 iPads (running the 'Design+Build' app) to be able to be connected to a PC (running the 'Orbit' app) over a local wifi network, and be completely functional offline (in case of being in a location with poor internet access). I also developed the network portion, transmitting the latest user's customized ship design to 'Orbit.'

"Design+Build" app on iPad

This part runs on an iPad and launches the ship into orbit at completion.

Choose 1 of 6 ships for the experience.

Select parts and assign colors.

After the launch sequence, the user receives a QR code for their shareable video clip.

An example of a shareable video clip.

A technical issue prevented us from using UDP to sniff out the server IP (the 'Orbit' app) so I created a configuration screen to manually input the server's IP on boot of the app.


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