Maze Craze
Overview
Maze Craze is an interactive board-game that's a maze. It has "walls" comprised of lines of LEDs arranged in a grid. The player moves his or her magnetic piece through the maze. A computer will track a players movement (using magentic sensors), ensuring they don't cheat and will change the position of the walls in response to the player's movements (by lighting different walls). The game is designed to be fun for the whole family, with a vareity of difficulties and also a 2-player option! The maze will count the number of moves it took for you to complete a certain puzzle and you can try to beat your family's high score!!
Contributors
Created by Jason Christal and Liz Halter
Objectives:
1. Construct a functioning game board.
2. Make the board aesthetically pleasing.
3. Create an input for users to change game settings.
4. Design different challenges and games for the players.
5. Make a random maze generator that ensures mazes are solvable.
6. Make a 2-player option.
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 (@ $14.95 here)
Pack of 400 pt and 830 pt Breadboards (@ $7.99 here)
Hall Effect sensors (x18 for @ $17.10 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 (@ $1.14 here)
Double A Batteries (4 pack for @ $3.78 here)
Wiring (provided)
Total
Total: $76.89
