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Revision as of 04:38, 16 December 2019

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.

SMACMAN

Smacman

Abstract

Our team created a unique 2 player game involving a central screen of 64x64 LED matrix and two auxiliary controllers. The two opponents will face one another and will have a paddle on their side. A ball will travel between players which they have to deflect away. Additionally, each player will have a “monster” that will continuously move towards the ball and try to eat the ball. If a monster eats the ball, that opponent of the owner of the monster will lose. Therefore, it is beneficial for a player to try to place the ball closer to their monster and further away from the opponent’s monster in order to score. Additionally, if the ball contacts the side of the screen behind the player’s paddle, they will also lose. As the game progresses, the speed of the ball will increase and eventually ,also there will be variation in the movement of monster. The controllers(xBee--XB24-AWI) will be wireless and communicate with the master board which runs the game and drives the 64x64 LED matrix.The MP3 module(VS 1053) reads music files from an SD card and plays the music through a speaker interfaced with the board in the background.

Objectives

The main objective of the project is to develop a 2D two player smacman game. Other milestones to achieve the objective are as below:

  • Visually display the movement of the monster depending on the direction of the ball on LED Matrix in real time
  • The controller which does wireless transfer of accelerometer values is used to control the movement of the ball
  • Play music in the background and game sounds using MP3 Decoder
  • Design PCB for Master and the Controller which will interface all the peripheral devices to the SJ-two boards.

Introduction

The project is broadly divided into two modules:

1. Input Module: The input module connects SJ-two board() to XBee Modules(distant nodes for players) and MP3 Decoders which is used to control the Paddle movement which will eventually control the game. The XBee Module transmits control packets to the output module.

2. Output Module: The output module connects another SJ-two board to LED Matrix for visual display. It recursively polls to receive control packets from the input module and updates the paddle movement as per user's input.

About the game

  • Both Players should try to hit the ball with the paddle placed on their side.
  • Press switch on the controller SJ-Two board to start the game.
  • Tilt the controller left or right to move the paddle.
  • Hit the ball with your paddle before the monster eats it to get a score.
  • Avoid the monster of opposite player to eat the ball in your side, if this happens then the Game is Over, else the ball continues to move between the paddles.
  • The speed of the monster increases when the ball will move in opposite direction.
  • Level 1 has the monster of opposite player moving at your side along the edges. If any player exceeds a score of 33 then me move to Level 2.
  • Level 2 has the monster of opposite player moving along x-axis at your side along the edges. If any player exceeds a score of 66 then me move to Level 3.
  • Level 3 has the monster of opposite player moving along x-axis and y-axis at your side along the edges. If any player reaches a score of 100 then that player wins the game.
  • Both the Players can play and pause the game anytime and resume from where he paused.

Team Members & Responsibilities

  • Nick Schiffer
    • XBEE, Controller Functionality, Communication Architecture, Game Logic Development, Enclosures, PCB Designing
  • Mohit Ingale
    • LED Driver, Game Logic Development, Enclosures, PCB Designing
  • Ayesha Siddiqua
    • Graphic Driver, Game Logic Development
  • Shreya Patankar
    • Splash Screen Graphics Driver, Game Logic Development, MP3 Decoder

Delivery Schedule

Project Repository Link: Github Project

Week# Date Task Status Actual Completion Date
1 10/1/2019
  • Submission of Project Proposal.
  • Complete
  • 10/1/2019
2 10/15/2019
  • Create GitLab Repository.
  • Go through the projects and research about components.
  • Distributing the roles among team members.
  • Research Required Components.
  • Submit Schedule and Components List.
  • Complete
  • 10/14/2019
3 10/22/2019
  • Familiarize with 64x64 LED Matrix Datasheet.
  • Familiarize with xbee & accelerometer datasheet.
  • Familiarize with Mp3 Decoder VS-1053 datasheet.
  • Complete
  • 11/8/2019
4 10/29/2019
  • Make Gitlab Repository for individual tasks for all modules
  • Introduce Naming Convention
  • Develop Graphics Drivers and Implementation of displaying basic monster on LED Matrix
  • Calibrating Accelerometer values for 2 Players
  • Complete
  • 11/8/2019
5 11/5/2019
  • Develop code to send Accelerometer values to move the paddle for both the players
  • Basic LED Display testing for boundary conditions.
  • Develop game specific APIs to draw objects like monster, paddle, ball of led driver
  • Project report update on the wiki.
  • Complete
  • 11/12/2019
6 11/12/2019
  • Develop Algorithm Design for Game Logic for all 3 levels of game
  • Transmission of Accelerometer values for 2 players from their respective controllers to the master
  • Code for the splash screen(Intro screen)
  • Complete
  • 11/19/2019
7 11/19/2019
  • Code for MP3 Decoder for the background music
  • 7 segment display for players score from controller
  • Code to display the score on matrix
  • Code Integration for the moving of paddle on basis of accelerometer values from controllers for both the players
  • Complete
  • 11/26/2019
8 11/26/2019
  • Develop Play/Pause/Stop functionality
  • Debug and Test the Play/Pause/Stop functionality
  • Complete
  • 11/30/2019
9 12/3/2019
  • Design PCB for Controller & master and generate Gerber files, finalize PCB manufacture
  • Integrating calibrated accelerometer, push-button functionalities and wireless transfer from controller boards
  • Complete
  • 12/10/2019
10 12/10/2019
  • Integration of subsystems
  • 3-D Printing of enclosures for matrix and the player's controller
  • Fixing the bugs during testing
  • Complete
  • 12/15/2019
11 12/17/2019
  • Final bug fixes and troubleshooting.
  • Complete wiki report and final demo.
  • In-Progress
  • 12/17/2019

Parts List & Cost

Item# Part Desciption Vendor Qty Cost
1 SJTwo Boards From Preet 3 $150.00
2 64x64 RGB LED Matrix Adafruit 1 $92.00
3 Wiring Components and Cable Amazon 1 $20
4 x1-x2 3D printer filament spool(s) For 3D printed enclosures [1] 1 $20
5 3x XBEE Modules From Preet and Adafruit 4 $27
6 Batteries Adafruit TBD TBA

Design & Implementation

View our current progress here (this will be added to the wiki when completed): Github Wiki

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Hardware Design

1)There are two players in the game. These are 2 xbee nodes and they are connected to one main node and thus the topology for broadcast is set. 2)MP3 player for game sound effects

Hardware Interface

1) Xbee interfaces using UART Bus.

2)MP3 player interface using SPI Bus.

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