Arduino Transdimentional Maze

This is the first release of Transdimentional Maze. It's a game for arduino that simulates a first person perspective of an adventure over a maze.

This project was developed during the classes of SSC0180 - Electronics for Computer Sciences at USP - São Carlos.

How to play

The game is played using 4 push buttons and 5 leds. Each button sends to the code which direction to move (North, East, South or West). 4 of 5 leds show possible movements within the square (cell of the maze) the player is located (you can think of it as a room with 4 doors, where each activated led is an open door that you can go in). The 5th led blinks when the player tries to make an invalid movement (e.g. walk into a closed door, indicated by a led off) and turns on when the player wins (i.e. escapes the maze).

Watch the video (Audio in Portuguese):
Project Demonstration (YouTube)

Features (W.I.P) - Playable

Due to deadlines, the group was not able to implement all the planned features, but here is a complete list of all of them:

• Python script to generate matrix representation out of human readable mazes
• Visualization of the surroundings of the maze using 4 leds (1x1 cell)
• Visualization of the surroundings of the maze using 24 leds (3x3 cell)
• Move buttons and camera adapting to new position
• Blink led when invalid movement
• Turn led on on victory
• Random maze generator
• Reset button
• Display to show passed time (speedrun like) (that's why we used analogic pins for buttons, but we ended up not using the display, so there are a bunch of digital pins free now)
• Levels of dificulty (1x1, 2x2 ou 3x3 grid)
• Send maze to android by bluetooth

Components (For implemented features):

• 1 Arduino with 9 ports (the code uses 5 digital pins and 4 analog (due to Display), but it is not needed to be analogic (changes needed to the code))
• 5 LEDs
• 4 Buttons

Pin mapping:

LEDS:

• 2 -> Victory / Invalid Movement LED
• 3 -> North door LED
• 4 -> East door LED
• 5 -> South door LED
• 6 -> West door LED

Buttons:

• A0 -> North button
• A1 -> East button
• A2 -> South button
• A3 -> West button

How the code works (TODO)

Maze Translation

There is a python script we made that converts human readable mazes (sort of) to a number matrix that is exported (manually) to arduinos code (hardcoded by now).

TODO: PUT RAW MAZE EXAMPLE OBS: We plan to add a feature that randomizes new mazes, so hardcoding will not be necessary anymore.

REST OF THE CODE. TODO: EXPLAIN

Group:

• Dalton Hiroshi Sato
• Marcus Vinicius Castelo Branco Martins
• Vinícius Eduardo de Araújo
• Vitor Souza Amim