Eli Silverstein

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Sustainability Street

A Northeastern University outreach project

Overview

An arcade-style live-action video game with an Arduino running the game environment, entirely programmed in C.

The exhibit

Project goals

An outreach project focused on educating elementary school students about a sustainability topic in a fun way. My professor liked our exhibit, and students enjoyed interacting with it despite it looking so janky.

Gameplay

Visuals

To display simple graphics for the game, I created a custom digital protocol to send the state of the game to a computer running MATLAB. My group sourced the materials and decorated the project.

MATLAB visuals

More details

The main interface is the sliders. These control the motors and power switching for the LED strip. Each large piece of the arcade game could disassemble with entirely 3D-printed clips, and I made custom cable connectors for the LEDs and motors.

Build
Circuit schematic

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