Tag: dice

Boldport: Pips (#23)

Nick Momrik1 Comment

When I was thinking about cancelling my AdaBox subscription I came across Boldport Club.

As a member of the Boldport Club you’ll receive an electronics project once a month. Our projects are designed to be engaging, challenging, entertaining, collectable, and to promote exploration and discovery through the use of electronics.

Weird timing that AdaBox007 actually included the Cad Sticker set from Boldport Club.

Over the last year or I’ve come to realize I really enjoy little soldering kits. Time will tell if the Boldport Club is satisfying and worth the cost. Each project looks unique and really well designed. I paid for a year up front, which comes out to pretty much the same as a year of AdaBox and I get something every month instead of quarterly.

Here’s a time-lapse of my assembly of Boldport Club #23: Pips.

It was a fun assembly and works as advertised. Not sure I’ll get any future use out of it though.

I Created a Game

Nick Momrik1 Comment

Since getting Adafruit’s AdaBox001 and a bunch of other components I’ve been experimenting and learning a lot. I got started on my garage sensor project, but fried the LCD and temperature sensor so it’s on hold until I get some new parts. Other than that I haven’t really built anything useful. I was playing with fire (effects) last weekend, which got me wondering what I might be able to do with the NeoPixel FeatherWing I was using.

I decided to create a game I could play with my 6-year-old niece over the holiday weekend. To get her involved I wanted to have some configuration options. I came up with a dice game, similar to the card game War, because it’s very basic and easy to understand for a young kid. I got a good start on Saturday night and had a fully functional version by lunch on Sunday. I’m calling it War of Dice.

I made a little demo video to show how it works. The focus kind of sucks, but I wasn’t recording a 4th take. Not sure if the brightness of the LEDs was causing an issue with the GoPro or it was too close for my camera settings.

Everything is open source and available on GitHub where I also provide links to the parts used. Enjoy!

There have definitely been some frustrations through this whole learning process and working inside the Arduino IDE, which uses C. I learned how to code using C++ (we didn’t use any Visual) in college, almost 20 years ago! Probably haven’t touched C since though. I guess what’s old is new again.