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Smart Shoe Sole MITBetterWorld

“With U Smart Sole” DIY GPS Embedded Smart Shoe Sole #MITBetterWorld Using Arduino

                  What do you do when someone is chasing you or you are lost? Cross your fingers? Don’t. When you are in trouble, just cross your feet [in a special way] and your location is sent to your family members. Wait there’s more! Even the family can get your location just by …

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marble maze simulator

Marble Disorder – a marble maze simulator with tilt switches using Arduino

Marble Disorder is a borderline case of Marble Madness  It simulates a marble maze by sensing the box’s orientation with 2 tilt switches. Stop the press: there’s a new and more intuitive version that doesn’t require the spin knob (See video). I keep documenting the original version below for historical purposes, but don’t watch this – watch that Bonus game: The Marble Disorder box is …

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AVR System

Build a Complete AVR System and Play Mastermind using Arduino

The game Mastermind has been around a long time, and I remember getting a board version with colored pegs when I was a kid. I love this game, as it is solvable simply by pure logic. One player (or a computer/microcontroller) chooses a sequence of colors from a pool of available colors and then the other player …

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evolution of an Arduino game

Fairly Simple Simon – the evolution of an Arduino game

Important notice: Final (i.e. relevant) version is at the last step of this instructable. If you want to build a Simon, that is the recommended version. The rest of the steps show how this evolved from a bare-bones game for LED 13 and Serial (i.e. zero components) until my mail order came through  Each version has a show-off video, of course …

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2 player Pong

2 player Pong using Arduino

I started with the Instructable from Kyle Brinckerhoff; http://www.instructables.com/id/Ardu-pong-the-Arduino-based-pong-console/ Thanks Kyle! and the following at Make magazine http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/08/arduino-pong.html and I see the original code is attributed to Pete Lamonica Thanks Pete!! I am using the paddles instead of the joy stick and I have made it for 2 players. Also I added some sound. I …

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