F22: xGameCreate
Contents
- 1 Grading Criteria
- 2 Whack-a-mole
- 3 Abtract
- 4 Objectives & Introduction
- 5 Team Members & Technical Responsibilities
- 6 Schedule
- 7 Materials List with cost
- 8 Design & Implementation
- 9 Schematic
- 10 Hardware Design
- 11 Software Design
- 12 Game Logic
- 13 Testing & Technical Challenges
- 14 Conclusion
- 15 References
Grading Criteria
- How well is Software & Hardware Design described?
- How well can this report be used to reproduce this project?
- Code Quality
- Overall Report Quality:
- Software Block Diagrams
- Hardware Block Diagrams
- Schematic Quality
- Quality of technical challenges and solutions adopted.
Whack-a-mole
Abtract
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
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Design & Implementation
Schematic
Hardware Design
The system is built on the SJ2 development board. A 64*64 LED matrix, a touch breakout board, and an MP3 decoder are interfaced with the SJ2 board. The LED matrix screen has a top rectangle to display the score and lives. The remaining portion is divided into 12(4*3) rectangles depicting 12-mole holes. Each of the 12 holes is covered with an ITO-coated flexible transparent sheet. Each of the ITO sheets is connected to the touch sensor breakout board through wires. The system is designed to operate on a battery. The entire system is enclosed in a 3D-printed enclosure.
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.
LED Matrix
mp3 module
Hardware Interface
Touch Sensor Driver
LED matrix Driver
Audio Driver
Software Design
Game Logic
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This section includes implementation, but again, not the details, just the high level. For example, you can list the steps it takes to communicate over a sensor, or the steps needed to write a page of memory onto SPI Flash. You can include sub-sections for each of your component implementation.
Testing & Technical Challenges
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<Bug/issue name>
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Conclusion
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Project Video
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Project Source Code
References
Acknowledgement
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References Used
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Appendix
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