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Whack-a-mole

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Whac-a-Mole is a fun arcade game in which the player hits plastic moles with a hammer as soon as it appears out of their hole, to score points. We will be recreating the same old game with some modifications. Instead of plastic moles and a hammer, we will be using a LED Matrix to display mole-like characters and touch sensors to imitate the hammer. The scoring will be based on the no of moles you hit and how accurately you hit. We will be designing three levels and after each level, the difficulty of the game will rise.

Objectives & Introduction

• The aim of the game is to hit as many moles as possible as they appear out of the holes

• There will be three lives and the speed and complexity of the game increase as the score goes up.

• If you miss a mole you lose a life

• Based on how many moles you hit your score will increase.

• The LED matrix is used to create the 12-mole-hole-like animation and the moles appear randomly in some holes.

• ITO-coated PET is used for receiving the touch input (hitting the mole).

• A speaker is used to play background music, and sound clips when you hit a mole.

Team Members & Technical Responsibilities

• Karthigai Amutha Ezhilarasu
  • Touch Sensor Driver Implementation
  • Game logic design
  • Hardware Integration

• Stephen Oneto
  • Graphics Driver Implementation
  • Game logic design
  • Enclosure design and 3D printing
  • Battery regulatory circuit design

• Yatish Koul
  • MP3 Driver Implementation
  • Integrating MP3 module with the Game
  • Game logic design

Schedule

Materials List with cost

Design & Implementation

Schematic

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Hardware Design

Implementation

Capacitive touch breakout

We used a MPR121 12-channel capacitive touch sensor breakout board. It supports I2C and can be configured for different levels of sensitivity. The 12 touch sensor pins are connected to 12 ITO films which are placed on top of the LED matrix. When a touch is detected an interrupt will be generated. The status of the 12 sensors is then verified one by one in order to determine which pin is touched.

Touch breakout board

LED Matrix

mp3 module

Hardware Interface

Touch Sensor Driver

LED matrix Driver

Audio Driver

Software Design

Game Logic

Implementation

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