Update: This page was blogged on Hack-A-Day on Jan, 8. Since then I've received some comments and tips and modified the original sofrware. Now, after a game-over, the circuit enters on a demo mode, and keeps the waiting until someone hits "START" button. Better user interface!

These days I've found an old Dance-Dance-Revolution-Similar-Pad and was looking for an idea to hack it into something more usefull or, at lease, fun. It wasn't hard to find that someone already did an Arduino library to read a PlayStation controller. You can find it here. Best regards to it's author, Bill Porter.

My idea to reuse the PS2 controller was to recreate the game Simon.

Simon was a very popular electronic game among 80's kids. Brazilians knew it by the name Genius. There was also a toy-robot called Percival, that came with this game on top of its head.

This is a memory game. It plays a sequence of colored-lights and sounds, and the players have to reproduce the same sequence. Each colored-button is attributed to one player, and this player is responsible to press this button at the right time.

 This project is quite simple and easy to reproduce.

The code, that you can see below, uses 4 digital output pins to light the leds that represent the game sequence. It also uses one extra digital output to generate sound via a piezo-buzzer.

PlayStation controller also needs 4 digital pins, plus a ground and the 3.3 V power.

The hardware is very simple: Just 4 leds with their respective resistors and 1 buzzer. I glued everything inside an used ice-cream package, which received 4 different colors of paint to resemble the original Simon

 

 

 And here is the video of this rig in action:

 

 

 Fell free to download and use the code anywhere. If you find any errors, please send me an e-mail.

/*

Simon Game (Genius, for Brazilian users)
Author: Alex Porto

For more information, please check http://dalpix.com/blog

Notes: This game uses PS2XLib to integrate PlayStation 2 with Arduino.
       This library is was developed by Bill Porter

*/

#include <PS2X_lib.h>

#define MAX_LEDS          4      // Maximum number of leds to play
#define DELAY_PLAY_START  1000   // Initial delay during playtime
#define DELAY_PLAY_MIN    100    // Minimum delay during playtime. Delay will decay down to this value
#define DELAY_PLAY_DECAY  50     // Delay decreasing step.
#define BUTTON_START      255
#define BUTTON_1          0
#define BUTTON_2          1 
#define BUTTON_3          2
#define BUTTON_4          3
#define NO_BUTTON         -1

#define PIN_SPEAKER      3
#define PIN_LED_1        10
#define PIN_LED_2        11
#define PIN_LED_3        12
#define PIN_LED_4        13

#define GAMEPAD_CLK      7
#define GAMEPAD_CMD      6
#define GAMEPAD_ATT      5
#define GAMEPAD_DAT      4

#define MAX_SEQUENCE     256

#define TONE_ERROR          956

PS2X ps2x;
byte pin[MAX_LEDS] = {PIN_LED_1, PIN_LED_2, PIN_LED_3, PIN_LED_4};
int play_tones[MAX_LEDS] = {10, 30, 75, 110};
byte sequence[MAX_SEQUENCE];
byte stage;
int wait;

void shuffle()
{   
  for (int i=0; i<stage; i++) {
    sequence[i] = random(MAX_LEDS);
  }
}

void play_tone(int tone)
{
  analogWrite(PIN_SPEAKER, tone);
}

void set_all_leds(int state)
{
  for (int i=0; i<MAX_LEDS; i++) {   
    digitalWrite(pin[i], state);
  }   
}

void blink_all(int count, int time)
{
  for (int i=0; i<count; i++) {   
    for (int j=0; j<MAX_LEDS; j++) {   
      digitalWrite(pin[j], HIGH);
    }
    delay(time);
    for (int j=0; j<MAX_LEDS; j++) {   
      digitalWrite(pin[j], LOW);
    }
    delay(time/2);
  }   
}

void blink_one(byte pin_number, int count, int time)
{
  for (int i=0; i<count; i++) {   
    digitalWrite(pin[pin_number], HIGH);
    delay(time);
    digitalWrite(pin[pin_number], LOW);
    delay(time/2);
  }   
}

void play_sequence()
{
  for (int i=0; i<stage; i++) {
    Serial.print("Play ");
    Serial.print (sequence[i], DEC);
    Serial.println();
    digitalWrite(pin[sequence[i]], HIGH);
    play_tone(play_tones[sequence[i]]);
    delay(wait);
    play_tone(0);
    digitalWrite(pin[sequence[i]], LOW);
    delay(100);
  }  
  delay(200);
  blink_all(5, 50);
}

int read_buttons()
{
  ps2x.read_gamepad(false, 0);

  if (ps2x.Button(PSB_START)) return BUTTON_START;
  if (ps2x.Button(PSB_PAD_UP)) return BUTTON_1;
  if (ps2x.Button(PSB_PAD_RIGHT)) return BUTTON_2;
  if (ps2x.Button(PSB_PAD_LEFT)) return BUTTON_3;
  if (ps2x.Button(PSB_PAD_DOWN)) return BUTTON_4;

  return NO_BUTTON;
}

void blink_error(byte pin)
{
  play_tone(255);
  blink_one(pin, 20, 50);
  play_tone(0);
}

boolean get_players_commands()
{
  int seqidx = 0;
  boolean error = false;
  int button;
  do {
    int expected = sequence[seqidx];
    seqidx++;

    unsigned long time = millis() + wait * 2;
    int pressed = 0;
    button = NO_BUTTON;
    Serial.print("Waiting button ");
    Serial.print (expected, DEC);
    Serial.println();
    do {
      if (button == NO_BUTTON) {
        button = read_buttons();
        if (button != NO_BUTTON) {
          if (button == BUTTON_START) {
            Serial.println("restart");
            return false;
          }
          else {
            if (button == expected) {
              play_tone(play_tones[expected]);
              digitalWrite(pin[button], HIGH);
              Serial.println("Correct button");
              time = time - wait; // Doesn't need to wait for player action, so let's just spend the regular time with led lit and sound "sounding" :)
            }
            else {
              Serial.println("Wrong button");
              blink_error(button);
              return false;
            }
          }
        }
      }
      else {
        delay(50);
      }     
      Serial.print("time:");
      Serial.print(time, DEC);
      Serial.print(" - ");
      Serial.println(millis(), DEC);
    }
    while (millis() < time);

    if (button == NO_BUTTON) {
      Serial.println("Nobody played.");
      blink_error(expected);
      return false;
    }

    play_tone(0);   
    set_all_leds(LOW);   
  }
  while (seqidx < stage);

  return true;
}

void initialize()
{
  stage = 1;
  wait = DELAY_PLAY_START; 
  randomSeed(millis());
  Serial.println("Starting game...");
  blink_all(1, 1000);
}

void blink_success()
{
  set_all_leds(LOW);
  delay(100);
  for (int i=0; i<3; i++) {
    for (int j=0; j<MAX_LEDS;j++) {
      blink_one(j, 1, 50);
    }
  }
  set_all_leds(LOW);
  delay(500);
}

void show_demo()
{
  boolean light = true;
  int light_counter = 0;
  do {
    if (light) {
      digitalWrite(pin[0], LOW);
      digitalWrite(pin[1], HIGH);
      digitalWrite(pin[2], HIGH);      
      digitalWrite(pin[3], LOW);
      //set_all_leds(HIGH);
    } else {
      digitalWrite(pin[0], HIGH);      
      digitalWrite(pin[1], LOW);
      digitalWrite(pin[2], LOW);
      digitalWrite(pin[3], HIGH);
      //set_all_leds(LOW);
    }     
    delay(20);
    light_counter++;
    if (light_counter == 50) {
      light_counter = 0;
      light = !light;
    }
  } while (read_buttons() != BUTTON_START);
  set_all_leds(LOW);
  delay(500);
}

void setup() {               
  Serial.begin(9600);

  for (int i=0; i<MAX_LEDS; i++) {   
    pinMode(pin[i], OUTPUT);    
  }
  pinMode(PIN_SPEAKER, OUTPUT);    

  initialize();
  stage=0;

  int error = ps2x.config_gamepad(GAMEPAD_CLK, GAMEPAD_CMD, GAMEPAD_ATT, GAMEPAD_DAT);  
}

void loop() {
  stage++;
  if (stage == (MAX_SEQUENCE)-1) {
    initialize();
  }

  set_all_leds(0);
  shuffle();
  play_sequence();
  if (get_players_commands()) {
    blink_success();
    wait -= DELAY_PLAY_DECAY;
    if (wait < DELAY_PLAY_MIN) {
      wait = DELAY_PLAY_MIN;
    }
  }
  else {
    show_demo();
    stage = (MAX_SEQUENCE)-2;
  }
} 

 

  • Digg
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Twitter