Fun and Engaging Project Ideas for Games and Entertainment

Self Balancing Segway Instructabot

[box color=”#985D00″ bg=”#FFF8CB” font=”verdana” fontsize=”14 ” radius=”20 ” border=”#985D12″ float=”right” head=”Major Components in Project” headbg=”#FFEB70″ headcolor=”#985D00″] Supplies: 1. Arduino: I used an Uno 2. 7.2v battery 3. Set of motors: Parralax’s 7.2v motor set http://www.robotshop.com/parallax-7-2v-motor-bracket-wheel-kit-pair.html 4. Analog accelerometer http://www.robotshop.com/sfe-3g-tripleaxis-accelerometer-breakout-board-adxl335-2.html 5. Sabertooth 5X2 motor controller http://www.robotshop.com/productinfo.aspx?pc=RB-Dim-19&lang=en-US 6. base board 7. 3/4″ threaded rod and nuts for balance […]

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Arduino Memory Game

Game – Entertainment Project Ideas / Muhammad Bilal

Background This is a project that was started 2 years ago which I recently decided to pick up again and finish. The purpose of the product is to test a person’s ability to memorize patterns. It does this on a 2×2 button layout where the user must replicate the LED pattern that is shown. With each successful entry, another element to the

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Arduino MKR IoT Carrier As a Game Console

Game – Entertainment Project Ideas / Muhammad Bilal

In this instructable I’m exploring the capabilities of the MKR IoT Carrier as a game console. The Carrier has everything and a bit more you need for a proper game console. A really cool circular colour display, width 256 pixels. Five touch buttons. Five RGB LEDs. A piezo buzzer. A 3 axis accelerometer. A few

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Table Tennis Bat With Machine Learning AI (Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense + TensorFlow Micro)

Game – Entertainment Project Ideas / Muhammad Bilal

Since the pandemic started, me and my housemates bought a Table Tennis table and started playing a lot of Table Tennis. I made this project so that I could monitor and test how well I perform my shots based on what the device is telling me, so that I could improve my game. I use

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Star Wars Adafruit Flora Theremin LED Bra

Game – Entertainment Project Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

Use the force, Luke. Close your eyes, hold on tight to your light saber and…….. Don’t touch that dial. No tweaking the knobs. Just wave your hands in front of the two sensitive sensors embedded in this bespoke piece of wearable tech. The garment has an embedded Adafruit Flora wearable microprocessor to generate R2-D2 theremin

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Emoticon Helmet using Arduino

Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

The Internet has become a pretty good mask to portray yourself as anything you want. This includes hiding your true emotions when posting facebook statuses, IMing someone, or sending emails (like telling you’re boss they are awesome when they are really a jerk). But what about talking to someone in real life? How do you

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Led Slot Machine Costume using Arduino

Arduino LED Project Ideas, Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

This Instructable will walk you through my process of making a Slot Machine costume with addressable leds controlled with an arduino! Step 2: Lets Get started Picture set up: I found my slot picture online that the best graphic that when enlarged would stay nice and clear. Be sure to follow the directions on

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Necomimi Arduino Cat Ears

Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

They are so dang cute. If you have ever seen the cool promo for the Necomimi Neurowear wearable set of cat ears that respond to brainwaves, you would want a set too. But it seems they may be vaporware since it hasn’t materialized on the market yet, not that I would be able to afford

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soundie: a musical touch-sensitive light-up hoodie using Arduino

Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, How To – DIY – Project Ideas, Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

This tutorial will show you how to create a garment that changes its behavior depending on how conductive you are. It detects conductivity through iron-on conductive fabric that we will use, and it will light up and sing different notes depending on how you touch the conductive fabric. We’ll be using sewable electronics (the LilyPad

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Color Changing Nightlight using Arduino

Arduino LED Project Ideas, Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

So, instead of buying a nightlight for my kid’s room, I decided I could do a much better job of it. This nightlight cycles through 1500 colors over 7 mins and turns on when it is dark and turns off when it is light. It is also small enough into small objects to add effect.

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