LEGO
Bop It
What in the world is this?!
This is my version of the popular
Bop It electronic game from Parker Brothers.
It is similar to a game of Simon Says, but instead of having to repeat an
ever longer sequence of notes, in Bop It, you have to repeat an ever
faster barrage of commands.
In the real Bop It games, the commands are spoken: Bop it, Pull it, Twist it!
Since MindStorms RCX does not have speech capability, I used three different
bleeps instead.
The
wheel is the Twist It button.
The axle on the left is the Pull It button.
And the checker board pattern is the Bop It button.
I
wrote two NQC programs:
Practice, and Play
My goal was to re-create a playable Bop It game using just MindStorms parts.
I use one touch sensor for the bop it button,
another touch sensor for the pull it button,
and the light sensor for the twist it button.
The twist it button is interesting because it can be twisted in either direction.
It's held in a centered position by two rubberbands.