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[Martin Raynsford] figured out a way to sneak some learning into a fun package. He did such a good job the test subjects didn't even know they were teaching themselves just a tiny bit of CNC programming. The apparatus above is a marble maze, but instead of building walls [Martin] simply etched a pattern on the playing field. The marble is a ball bearing which moves through the maze using a … [Read more...]
Part of the fun of the classic game of Operation is the jump you get from the loud buzzer which sounds if you touch the sides. This exhibit piece uses the same principle of lining the edges of a track with metal, but instead of an annoying buzz, each touch will issue a bit of music. That's because the maze has been paired with a synthesizer. Instead of one sound wherever the stylus touches the … [Read more...]
Go Vote Now! update: looks like the vote button opens a popup to a Facebook app. this is required to vote :( For the full writeup on our entry, go here! … [Read more...]
[M. Eric Carr] built this a long time ago as his Senior Project for EET480. It's an electronic version of the ball-in-maze game. We've embedded this video after the break for your convenience. The game has just one input; an accelerometer. If you're having trouble visualizing the game, it works the same as this Android-based version, but replaces the physical maze and marble with a virtual maze … [Read more...]
It's off to the races once again with the Micomouse maze solving contest at the 2011 RoboGames. This is a picture of the winner, a bot called Min7 (main page) which was built by [Ng Beng Kiat]. Using four phototransistors and a flash sensor it managed to first map the contest maze, then speed run it in under four seconds. See both runs in videos after the break. He's certainly got a leg up on the … [Read more...]
[Oskar] has been making puzzles for some time now. In 2000, he made a small electromechanical 4-bit maze that's really fun to play. Lately though, he's been working on an improved version that could be the beginnings of a commercial product. The earlier electromechanical maze (you can play it in an applet on that page) is just a microcontroller hooked up to electromagnets and switches. To … [Read more...]
In what is surely becoming an ever-growing Rube Goldberg machine, [Dan] updated his gum ball dispenser to include a robot arm. We looked in on this human lab-rat experiment that rewards successful maze navigation with bubble-gum just about a year ago. As you can seen in the video after the break he's added several new features to delight users. The original had a maze actuated by an accelerometer … [Read more...]
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