For my stupid pet trick, I wanted to create something that would be kind of dumb, but like a game to play with. After struggling foreverrrrrrrr to come up with an idea, I decided to start from the opposite route. I began by messing around with a few different codes and circuits. One of the circuits and codes I created was a random number generator. That made me think of a dice and the applications that could have in real life.
I began thinking of board games and how that could be a used. I then was thinking about just how random the blinking lights were, and guessing which one would come next was near impossible. Then, it struck me that a lottery would be the perfect setup to use this!
I decided to make a lottery box. The way it worked was that a press of a button would trigger the lights to randomize and see if it matched up with the number drawn. I then had to go back into the code and add in the ‘if’ statement for the button. However, I was not able to make the button so that one click would trigger the motion, rather, the button had to stay consistently down in order to work. This was due to the amount of delays in the code.
I ended up laser printing the sides of the box out of cardboard and hot glueing them together. As for the lights, I soldered wires of the right length on to them, as well as the button. I then simply painted the boxand printed out a few instructions toadd to the game so that it made more sense, and voila.
