Inspiration

• Add an entertaining touch to motor skill rehabilitation, mental focus, visual memory and reaction time
  

What it does

• Flashes patters of 4 LEDs and hand gestures are used to repeat the pattern
  
• Essentially a memory game
  

How we built it

• Programmed the logic for the Simon Says game in the Arduino IDE
  
• Implemented sensor to recognize gestures that were mapped onto 4 directions corresponding to 4 LEDs
  

Challenges we ran into

• Sensors were either really sensitive or really non-responsive
  
• LCD display had an incompatible library so we had to use laptop as score display
  
• Reading vague documentation in order to troubleshoot
  
• Dealing with untested/experimental code
  

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Gesture recognition is near perfect
  
• We were able to implement the logic for the game correctly with our own touch
  

What we learned

• Always have backup components and backup plans
  
• Troubleshooting systematically really reduces overall panic among the team
  

What's next for Simon Says: Gesture Edition

• External score counter
  
• Sound implementation
  

Built With

• arduino
• c