Press & media kit

PandaDash AAC

A caregiver-locked tablet screen that turns a handful of big, chosen buttons into the only thing a child sees. Built by one parent solving one family's problem — now in closed testing on Google Play.

Category
Assistive tech / caregiver kiosk app
Platform
Android, via Google Play iOS coming soon
Status
Closed testing launching publicly soon — exact date on request
Pricing
Free, with a $1.99 one-time Pro unlock no subscription
Founder
Samuel Bohon
Studio
SamBohon.Digital human + AI marketing studio, Fort Worth, TX
Built with
Claude (Anthropic) app, website, and this press kit

The story

Samuel Bohon, founder of PandaDash AAC
Samuel Bohon, founder

PandaDash started as one parent's fix for a very ordinary problem: handing a tablet to a child who uses AAC, and not immediately regretting it. A regular browser is a minefield of accidental exits, autoplay, and menus little fingers shouldn't find — so the tablet became a screen with a handful of big, labeled buttons and nothing else. Whatever the child actually asks for, and that's it.

Samuel Bohon runs SamBohon.Digital, a Fort Worth marketing studio built around pairing human strategy with a serious AI toolkit. PandaDash — the app, this website, and this press kit — was built almost entirely inside that same AI-augmented workflow, using Claude end to end. It's less a side project than a working example of what the studio does for clients: a real, shipped product, not a slide deck about "AI strategy."

It's currently in closed testing with real caregivers, ahead of its public Google Play launch.

What it does

  • Caregiver-controlled setup screen, locked behind a simple caretaker gate
  • Free tier: a YouTube button plus 3 configurable buttons. Pro ($1.99, one time): 8 buttons to any site
  • Works as a home-screen launcher or with Android Screen Pinning
  • No subscription, no account, no data collected from the people using it

"I built PandaDash so handing someone a tablet could go back to being simple — they ask for what they want, and that's exactly what they get. Nothing else in the way."

— Samuel Bohon, founder, PandaDash AAC

A note on positioning

PandaDash is not an AAC device, a symbol-based communication system, or a replacement for someone's existing AAC program. Most AAC users have a dedicated device that runs only their communication software — PandaDash is built for the second device: the one used for shows, games, and downtime. It applies the same caregiver-controlled, locked-down approach AAC families already rely on to that secondary device, so a handful of YouTube channels, PBS Kids, or a couple of go-to sites don't come wrapped in menus, ads, or accidental exits.

Screenshots

PandaDash main kiosk screen with a YouTube button and several caregiver-configured buttons
The main screen — exactly the buttons a caregiver chose, nothing else
A YouTube video playing full width inside PandaDash, with the button menu still visible on the left
Content plays full screen — no detours, no other apps to find
PandaDash caretaker setup screen showing how to lock the tablet to the app
Caretaker setup — locking the tablet to PandaDash in a few taps
PandaDash button configuration screen showing labels, colors, and icons for each button
Configuring a button — label, URL, color, and icon

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