With events of all sizes on hold and live sports mostly up in the air, it’s a great time to think of new ways to entertain ourselves within our local circles. Bonus points if the activity involves running around outside, and/or secretly doubles as a team-building exercise, like [KarelBousson]’s modernized version of Capture the Flag.
Much like the original, the point of this game is to capture the case and keep it for as long as possible before the other team steals it away. Here, the approach is much more scientific: the box knows exactly who has it and for how long, and the teams get points based on the time the case spends in any player’s possession.
Each player carries an RFID tag to distinguish them from each other. Inside the case is an Arduino Mega with a LoRa shield and a GPS unit. Whenever the game is afoot, the case communicates its position to an external Raspi running the game server.
If you haven’t met LoRa yet, check out this seven-part introductory tutorial.
“Bonus points if the activity involves running around outside”: You seem to have forgotten your audience here. ;-)
Psh, some of us are not totally unfamiliar with the outside you know, there’s that day star and the green stick things and sometimes H20 drips from the ceiling, I’m practically an expert on it.
+100 and that weird blue ceiling!
Wtf can the outside be different for every person? Last month I entered the outside and it had a white and grey ceiling
Hmmm, maybe those safeguards would have been useful in the old Traveling Junk box.
https://hackaday.com/2016/01/03/this-project-will-be-stolen-again/
You mean someone won’t be like “w00t, GPS module, score!!”
Shhhh!,
I’m hoping HaD will one day restart the Traveling Hacker Box, and that it ends up on my porch!