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Side project · Next.js

Little AI Lab

Ten short lessons on what AI is, then a lab where kids aged 4 to 13 build small AIs of their own.

Type
Side project
Status
Live
Stack
7 tools
Preview
Screenshot
Little AI Lab, screenshot

Details

How it was built

The lessons, led by Pip, the lab's guide, cover how AI learns from examples, why its guesses can be wrong, and where kids already meet it. Then My Lab, a playground of seven projects they build and keep: a sticker sorter that learns categories, a robot that learns a maze, a guess-my-favourite recommender, an art studio, a game builder, a problem solver and a scientist mode.

Three age bands share every screen, and the youngest never has to read: everything is read aloud and every action is a tap or a drag. The classifiers, the recommender and the maze learner are framework-free TypeScript modules with unit tests, and the components only render them.

Built for parents to trust: no camera, microphone or uploads, no accounts, analytics or third-party scripts. Progress lives in the browser, and the app installs and works offline.

Stack

7 tools
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React Three Fiber
  • Tailwind CSS
  • IndexedDB
  • Vitest
  • Playwright