plaYbox
The plaYbox is a recycled wooden box, with five Buttons equipped with Leds, used as a game for children. I had this idea, when casually surfing the internet I came across these big buttons, and having already seen my daughter’s (less than 2 years old) interest in playing with the bright (but dangerous) switches present in the house, I thought to use them to build a game.
The project was based on Arduino Uno, I use a prototipe shield to connect all buttons and leds. The complete code is available on GitHib repositry, if you like it remember to put a Star.
The wooden box
I find in the home an old wooden box, it was a gift I had received, originally it contained two bottles of beer and a glass, the dimensions were perfect and even the internal tablets immediately seemed to help me to support the necessary electronics. The dimension are 25x25x12 cm.
First I drew the diagonals by joining the vertices of the square on the smooth surface, in this way I found the center of the box to be able to make the first hole. The other four holes I made about 12 cm from the center, all the holes are 25mm. Then I drilled an extra hole for a push switch to use to turn the game on and off.
The circuit
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The code
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Some video
In this video you can see the first test of buttons and leds.