StopIt! LED Game (powered by arduino)

This project was inspired by this video from YouTube and the Pendulum Challenge Kit from Makershed.com. Its a simple game consisting of five LED lights and one pushbutton switch. The LEDs flash in a sequence and the player must press the button when the middle LED light is lit. The speed at which the lights flash increases until the player presses the button at the wrong time.

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Step 1 Materials and Tools

These are the parts you'll need to build your own StopIt! game.

-Arduino Uno (This controls the LEDs and detects when the button is pressed.) -Can be purchased form makershed.com
-USB A-B cable (Sometimes called a printer cable.) -Should come with your arduino.
-Solderless breadboard (half sized) -Can be purchased from makershed.com
-5 Leds (Four of one color, and one of another.)
-Pushbutton switch -I bought mine at Radioshack
-small resistor (more if you are worried about burning your LEDs.)
-At least 15 or so breadboard jumper wires -Can be purchased from makershed.com
-A small amount of thin cardboard. I used empty cereal box.

Tools:
-Soldering Iron
-Electrical solder
-Computer

Comments

[LoopBack127]

Very neat idea!

I Built it with my 7 year old and he loved it (my little geek in training). It was our first Arduino game and this motivated him to keep building more and more! Please see photo for our improvised solder-less "remote" button

Thanks for posting this!

Happy Holidays

[vandygirl2013]

i am not familiar with the move command... how can i make the lights go up and back and not just one direction

[juggleboy]

This is what the move function does: First, it turns of all of the LEDs, then it lights up the next one in the sequence. It knows which LED to light because it checks the "LightPosition" variable.

To have the lights flash to the right, then back the left, you need to change the code at the beginning of the loop, underneath "//Move the light", so that it does not jump back to the first LED when it reaches the side, but instead reverses the direction they blink in. If you can change the way the "LightPosition" variable gets set, you can make the light travel back and forth. You probably need another variable to keep track of which direction the light is traveling.

This is where you should look to make your changes in the code:
//Move the light.
if(millis() - lastMove >= pause)
{
lastMove = millis(); //Remember when we switched LED

LightPosition++; //increment the Light position.
if(LightPosition >= 6) LightPosition = 1;

move(LightPosition);//Update the light position.
}

Hope this helps.

[bakedicecream]

cool:)