Family Game Night Buzzer

Our CPX device was created as a timer for a hypothetical board game. This board game would require a timer with flashing lights to count down from five and a clear indicator of a red light when the time is up.

3D printer (flash drive for printer), TinkerCAD (https://www.tinkercad.com/), computer, wires, glue

When our group first got this project assignment, we immediately started brainstorming ideas. We had to think about key things we needed our design to do, like countdown, and flash lights, while also keeping in mind variables that we would not be able to change. We also had to consider an constraints, means, and functions during this time. For example, we made a functions and means tree to help organize our thoughts. The CPX is quite small, and we wanted to make sure it would be easily visible in our final design. By brainstorming ideas as a group we were able to come up with a successful design that serves its intended purpose.

Between the three of us, we each created our own design independently. We then decided on what we believed would be the strongest design and printed.

Our final prototype was actually a combination of Lilly and Ceci's projects glue together, so it is important that all team members contribute and everyones prints!

Here is a link to our TinkerCad project: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/24ypLDn91XM-cpx-stand?sharecode=vKjA14QDHGh3nFW1Cg-4JQpv5yGftkg2YOFmnDD1PTg

1-2 state there is no countdown timer

4-8 state when shaken, there is a timer countdown enabled for five seconds and all LEDs are turned blue.

10-24 state the LEDs will be blinked white, stay white for .25 seconds, and turn blue for .75 seconds five times. This process would happen until the countdown timer is at zero, which will turn the LED solid red.

For our specific project we did no use nor need a servo motor!

Once the CPX stand was printed and the code was created we were able to put everything together! This means we could connect the CPX to our computers and have the Adafruit code make the CPX light up and count down, serving as a timer.