#mario box

[centuryracecar]

I found this wedding card box at a reception site that I recently delivered a wedding cake to. Take notes, people. This couple is doing it right.

[globalgraff]

COIN BOX

[bonnie-eisenman-blog]

HackPrinceton

HackPrinceton was awesome! It was 24 hours of goodness, ice cream, failures and triumphs, etc, etc...

And I came out of it with:

A brand-new, free Arduino + some electronics parts (thanks, hardware reimbursements!)

The Biggest Fail prize! (Cash, mind you.)

Newly re-forged connections with the awesome people I ended up working with (names: Kanika and Vincent).

I knew Kanika, a senior in the ELE department, vaguely through PWiCS; we agreed via Facebook to try working together for the hackathon. Vincent I ran into at registration -- we'd been in Japanese together! Together we formed Team Tape, so named because our projects were kinda dependent on way too much masking tape.

We ended up sequestering ourselves in the basement of Sherrerd, where the hackathon was held. I really need to get better at seizing good spots quickly at hackathons. It matters a lot! But the basement was fine.

I initially wanted to build mat-less DDR using a Wiimote and IR LEDs. Unfortunately, that kind of fell through because we wasted hours searching for a library that would let us read off IR data. (We found stuff for accelerometer data, for example, but never IR data...) Of course after the hackathon ended someone showed me motej. Oh well.

Instead, we ended up building:

DDR Gloves (aka, Pattycake, Pattycake, D!D!R!)

The Mario Box

Follow up posts for each of those coming soon.

The idea for DDR gloves struck around 12 midnight. What if we attached touch sensors to the fronts and backs of our hands, and played pattycake?? A-ha! A genius idea.

The Mario Box was honestly a silly idea meant to get me a hardware reimbursement for an Arduino. ;) But it was fun! The idea: a box that only opens if you knock on it in the secret pattern....

The DDR Gloves were a hit, but it was The Mario Box that won us the Biggest Fail award! I'm still pretty proud of that.