When I was studying Physics at the University of London Royal Holloway, I had an idea. What if there was a way to help teach poor kids and adults through an app?
Quantum Sand app
The result of this thought process is now an app that is nearing completion for testing.
Quantum Sand is an educational art-game-storytelling platform. Written in React, Rust, Ruby-on-Rails, C++ and Qml. Blender is used for the artwork.
Quantum Sand screenshot and video
These videos only capture part of the overall functionality within Quantum Sand.
Storytelling
Within the storytelling of Quantum Sand, the main characters who teach Xenia and Andrew, are Chinese and Japanese.
The Chinese characters are Ai and Zhao.
The Japanese characters are Sakura and Akio.
This reflects a deep fascination with Chinese and Japanese storytelling and artwork over a long period.
Storytelling in videogames such as Link’s Awakening, Ocarina of Time and Shenmue have left an impression that has lasted for decades.
Story examples
Live USB stick; STEM programme for Women and Girls
Quantum Sand can be distributed via a Live USB stick. This should help women and girls who are banned from education due to extreme interpretations of various religions. This will turn into the Quantum Sand STEM programme for Women and Girls.
More to follow…
Target hardware
The target hardware for Quantum Sand is the QALB-Boy which is still in planning. Qalb is the Arabic word for heart. Both physically and spiritually.
Target hardware for Quantum Sand; QALB-Boy specification. More to follow…
Hardware ideas (ideally Linux SBCs which are 100GBP or less);
- LimeSDR Mini 2.0 (optional)
- An AMD Ryzen SBC or an AI accelerator SBC (possibly an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super, or a Chinese alternative).
- More to follow…
Note: The only blocker at present, is reliable Gentoo Linux support. The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano is a favourite but Gentoo Linux is an unknown.
Mathpad support is planned…
Interfaith collaboration
Support for all locales is planned eventually. This should help with interfaith collaboration.
- 🤲 Interfaith collaboration is a planned feature for Quantum Sand.
- 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on Quantum Sand.
- 🤔 I’m looking for help with building a community around Quantum Sand.
Special thanks
Vital for Quantum Sand;
- Google’s Chromium
- Qt’s WebEngineView and Qml
- Tyson Tan’s friendly dragon art concept
- Dedouze’s unique art style (inspired my own art style)
- Blender (used for the art)
- Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) are licensed under MIT, CC-BY-4.0 licenses.
- Hundreds of developers for all of the deps I am using.
