Maze Craze

Overview

Maze Craze is a maze board game where the player tries to reach the final space without getting trapped by the ever changing walls. The maze is comprised of LED light walls in a grid formation. Every time the player moves spaces, the pattern of the walls changes to form a new maze. The game can cycle between 2 or 3 mazes so the player will have to remember the previous maze they just saw in order to make educated moves or change between random mazes. Magnetic sensors track the player's location to determine when the player has moved. The game will only create mazes that ensure the player can solve the maze in some fashion. Maze Craze is fun for the whole family! See who can solve the maze in the fewest moves and try to beat the high score!

Contributors

Created by Jason Christal and Liz Halter

Objectives:

1. Construct a functioning game board with all wiring enclosed in a box.

2. Make the board aesthetically pleasing. This includes painting and decorating.

3. Design different challenges and games for the players.

4. Make a random maze generator that ensures mazes are solvable.

5. Add user selection of game difficulty (switch)

Challenges

1. Learn any necessary coding languages.

2. Constructing a board.

3. Wiring the board.

4. Figuring out magnetic sensors.

5. Creating a program that solves the mazes in the shortest number of moves possible

6. Creating a program that can make mazes of varying difficulty.

Budget

Green LED lights, 5mm (pack of 50 @ $5.55 here)

LED RGB Strips, 1m (3x @ $59.85 here)

Pack of 400 pt and 830 pt Breadboards (@ $7.99 here)

Hall Effect sensors (x30 @ $27.00 here)

Pivoting on/off switch (pack of 5 @ $6.99 here)

Arduino (Provided)

Spray Paint (@ $3.00 here)

Plywood 2ft by 4ft (@ $7.92 here)

Screws (@ $8.47 here)

4 Double A Battery Pack (2x @ $2.28 here)

Double A Batteries (2x 4 pack @ $7.56 here)

Circular Magnets 1/2 in. dia (10 pack @$1.98 here)

Wiring (provided)

Total

Total: $138.59

Gantt Chart

Gantt Chart