ARDUINO ball throwing game
building your own gaming platform is pretty amazing on its own, but when the game actually looks like fun to play, well that’s on a different level of cool. [Zippy314] created an Arduino based game platform as a Christmas present to his kid called the Das Blinken Bonken!
Like all highly addicting games, the gameplay is simple; the player throws a ball at the target board while aiming to hit a certain ‘pad’. As shown in the video after the break, there are lots of game possibilities with this platform, like trying to hit the illuminated target each time, or just trying to hit all of the pads on the board as fast as possible.
A pad is registered as a ‘hit’ with the help of home-made pressure sensors, which are each constructed in a ‘sandwich’ of pressure-sensitive conductive sheets. This is the same material used in these LED Sneakers. considering that the resistance through the sheet lowers as pressure is applied, a basic voltage divider circuit is used to feed the analog inputs on the Arduino, thus making it very easy to discover a ‘hit’. An I2C 4-Digit 7 segment display keeps score and displays the game title, while a strip of addressable RGB LEDs give player feedback and other crucial gameplay information.