How to write a small program to use the Crayola Easy Animation Studio with Blender? Link to more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnX6pHC9VwE

I saw the Crayola Easy Animation Studio for about $17. It would be cool to hack this to drive Blender animations. It looks to have about 16 potentiometers or the equivalent packed onto a manikin that you can position. 

I can see that this would make a great, widely useful hack. Either by writing a (presumably small program) to get the values off of all those potentiometers, or by linking it directly into Blender, which would be a much, much bigger job.
The mannequin in the package is simply a few bits of plastic that clip together, there are no electronics in it. The included app that does the animation takes a photo of the mannequin and detects the location of each piece to then position the armature used for animation.

While any mannequin could be used for the same thing, you will find the odd shapes printed on this one will be used to get error free location detection of each piece.

Someone could write an app that detects the mannequin pieces and exports the armature data needed to match it. It will be about shape recognition within an image not reading any data being output by the mannequin.