Introduction: Simon Says(Optional Added Challenge)
This is an interactive memory game. It will say a series of colors and you will have to repeat the series of colors said. You will have to wear the aluminum foil band you've made to interact with the buttons.
Supplies
Things you will need:
-Red, Blue, White, Black and green Markers
-Popsicle stick
-A roll of tape
-Six Alligator Clips
-Makey Makey Kit
-DvD Case
-A sheet of Aluminum foil
-Three Small Cups
-A knife, scissor or exacto-knife
Optional:
-Lego Mindstorm
-Lego Mindstorm Motor
Step 1: Strapping Makey Makey
First you'll want to tape your Makey Makey to your DvD case
Step 2: Coloring Cup
You'll want to get a cup and color bands on the sides of the cup, it doesn't matter what order you color, but you must color the parts of the cup separate from each other. Each part MUST be a different color. There will have to be 5 bands or just have 4 and make the top a button as well.
Step 3: Cutting Cup
When you've finished coloring, you'll want to cut small slits inside the bands you've colored
Step 4: Cutting Foil
You'll want to take your sheet of aluminum foil, cut 5 pieces of foil to the sizes mentioned below:
Length:About the length of your game
Width:Double the length of the slits cut
Step 5: Making Button
You'll want to fold the aluminum foil in half lengthwise
Step 6: Fitting Button Through
You take your foil and now put it through your cup and pull it through a fair amount. Then fold the foil so it will be flat on the surfaces, both inside and outside.
Step 7: Strapping Buttons
You now want to tape your foil and make sure it won't move but you also don't want to cover the button or else it won't work
If you want to have a button on top, you just need to tape 1 side of the aluminum foil that is on the inside, fold it in on itself a lot of times with the untapped side facing outwards and that'll be good.
Step 8: Clipping Buttons
When you've taped down your foil, you want to take the remaining foil on the inside and fold it in on itself a lot to make it thick enough for an alligator clip to hold on tightly
Step 9: Alligator Clips
When you've folded your foil, you then will want to clip your alligator clips to the foil on the inside and tape your alligator clips to the cup so the foil and the alligator clips don't move
Step 10: Connecting Alligator Clips
Once you've connected the alligator clips you want to connect the alligator clips to the corresponding control on the Makey Makey.
The color square is the color you put onto the cup and the words are the controls on the Makey Makey
Step 11: Making Band
You'll want to take the rest of your aluminum foil, fold it up until it is thin and durable, then turn it like the image and put tape on the outside of the band to make sure it won't fall apart.
Step 12: Connecting Band to Makey Makey
You'll want to connect an alligator clip to the band you've just made and connect the other end of the clip to the ground section of the makey makey, which is located on the lowest parts of the Makey Makey
Step 13: Attaching Stick
You'll want to securely attach the stick to your game, making sure it doesn't interfere with the wires.
Step 14: Putting the Cup on the Stands
You'll want a place to put your game so you have to put 2 cups next to each other on the DvD case and tape it down. Then, you'll want to lay the popsicle stick you taped to your game on the cups. Then tape the popsicle stick securely on the cups.
Step 15: Wire Management
You'll wanna tidy up your game. It's all up to your preference but wire management is really important.
Step 16: Using Simon Says Code
Once you've finished building, you can go to this link and run the game
Step 17: Play!
You've finished this project and now you can play! But if this isn't enough...
Step 18: Optional:The Extra Mile
Optional:
If you have a lego mindstorm set and motor that can be controlled by scratch, you can put the motor on the cup stands, attach motor to popsicle stick.
Attach Motor Wire to Port A.
But to actually run a game with lego mindstorm, you'll have to get the scratch app and run the program from there.
Then you'll have a randomly moving simon says game. (Warning, highly experimental code and untested)
Now you can enjoy the fun in making your own projects.
