What is Circuit Twister?
Circuit Twister is an interactive game, much like Twister, in which players learn about the necessary components for building certain basic circuits (i.e. LED, DC Motor, and Servo circuits).
How do you play?
With each challenge, the team of players are to work together in pressing all of the buttons (each representing a specific circuit component) required to complete the challenge. As the game progresses, the challenges become more and more difficult, pushing users to think critically about the best method of completing the challenge.
How was it built?
All of the buttons were created using copper capacitive sensors, each consisting of a layer of foam sandwiched between two copper and wood sheets. When touching, the copper sheets complete a circuit, similar to a switch, and activate an Arduino program. In order to receive feedback from the buttons, we soldered a wire to each copper sheet: one for ground and the other for the digital pin. Additionally, for the digital pin wires, we soldered a 10K resistor and utilized the INPUT_PULLUP function so that Arduino could monitor the state of the button.
Copper Sheets (Input) -> Arduino serial monitor (Data) -> Led turns on (Output)
Who built it?
Circuit Twister was a team project for the Design Innovation course "Creative Programming and Electronics".
