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Create a Choice-based Text Adventure Game With Tinkercad Circuits

One of my fondest childhood memories is visiting my grandparent’s house and reading my uncle’s old collection of “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. While I always got stuck playing text-based computer adventure games with finnicky commands, I was hooked to the simplicity and variety of CYOA books (albeit the abundance of dramatic bad endings was […]

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Laser Tag Free for All Circuit Playground Express and ESP8266

Laser Tag “Free for All” Circuit Playground Express and ESP8266

This is an easy way to make your boards into a fun laser tag game to play with friends. we combined both boards as described in the pictures. Supplies For this project you will need IR remotes, shoe laces, circuit playground express, ESP8266, battery case for the board and batteries Step 1: GIT Files Go

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Head Mouse Game controller or disability aid using Arduino

Head Mouse – Game controller or disability aid using Arduino

My kids wanted to have a head controlled mouse for playing Minecraft – they wanted to move their heads and have the field of view move. I decided that was a challenge I couldn’t resist, so I decided to build a movement controlled mouse using an arduino and a gyroscope chip. Components A-Star 32U4 Micro

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Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476

Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476

Introduction Ever dream of having a darts game scored automatically without using those annoying plastic darts?  We decided it was a dream most of us has had at some point, and so decided to implement an automatic scoring system for a “real” cork dartboard. As college students, we found darts to be a great way

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Space Race Game using Arduino and Nokia 5110 Graphical Display

Space Race Game using Arduino and Nokia 5110 Graphical Display

Programming has always been fun and it just got a lot better with development platforms like Arduino. Almost every programmer out here would have tried to develop some kind of game using the language that they learning/practising. This helps them to tune their programming skills in a fun yet productive way. I have been a

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the interactive arthritis and memory exercise game

BrainTap: the interactive arthritis and memory exercise game

I built this project at at uni as a 3rd year project (with a couple of classmates) at the University of Technology, Sydney.It is aimed at Baby Boomers and targets a skill and level based memory and fine motor skills exercise game. The form is based on Arduino microcontrollers and hardwired with a randomised sequence

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