Time to upgrade the control box before Playtest #3. The current box is just a floor and face for the controls. The guts hang out – it’s ugly and probably dangerous. I designed a new box to hold the Arduino Mega, it’s power supply, the control knobs and displays, and jacks for everything external to […]
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First Working Demos
After a long weekend of debugging I got the whole system to work reliably with one controller. To commemorate that I shot a couple of demo videos. First Game Demo Showing a simple single-player rally game on 30 meters of LED strips (900 LEDs). Hardware Tour Quick overview of all the individual elements involved.
Display Panel Working Prototype
Tonight I cut the display from 1/4″ poplar on a laser cutter and installed the switches, pots and displays. (The single 7 segment display on the left still needs to be mounted.) I struggled with how to easily mount the other two displays – a short (<1/4″) very thin wood screw was needed… then hot glue […]
Display panel prototyping
With the electronics taken care of, it’s time to turn attention to the display panel. This was paper prototyping at its essence: I moved displays, knobs and a switch around until the flow made sense. I have another set of displays, but while the extra numbers looked cool, it made the whole thing very confusing. […]
Display Panel v1
This is a rough idea of what the main display panel will look like. The green button starts a game. The light can pulse when waiting to start and glow when in play. The knob below it selects the game with the game number displayed above it. When you select a new game it resets […]