Ideas for Areas to Explore
Quick Draw Duo
- Add some winning and losing sounds.
- Use the accelerometer to change the game to one with a physical draw.
- Find some other uses for a pair of synchronised CPB, e.g. light shows, stereo/spatial audio playback.
- Technical challenge 1: increase the robustness of the communication, e.g. make it recover from transient connectivity issues; match request and response with a suitable identifier.
- Technical challenge 2: understand and set the connection interval for Blutetooth LE GATT transactions and factor this into the design of the board syncronisation process.
Reaction Timer
- Add a cheat detector to the reaction timer to highlight impossible times and early presses.
- Use the NeoPixels to show the reaction time graphically.
- Increase the complexity of the visual (e.g. different colours, odd vs even) and auditory (e.g. different pitches) stimuli to investigate the additional delays from discrimination.
- Investigate tactile reaction time with some sort of actuator controlled by the CPX/CPB board.
- Examine any effect of using peripheral vision and lower brightness settings on reaction time.
Both
- Add an announcement of each time or the fastest time using sound samples for each digit.
- Independently verify the reaction timing - many smartphones offer high fps video recording in the form of a slow motion mode.
Related Projects
- Circuit Playground Quick Draw - the original project that this one is based on.
- Color Remote with Circuit Playground Bluefruit and Circuit Playground Bluefruit NeoPixel Animation and Color Remote Control - two other projects showing Bluetooth communication between two CPB boards.
- De Montfort University Leicester: CTEC1802 Arduino lab work: reaction timers.
- BBC Bitesize: Coordination and control - The nervous system: Investigating human reaction times - this is the remarkably simple but effective "ruler drop test".
- Reaction! game in MakeCode for CPX.
- Reaction Time game in MakeCode for BBC micro:bit.
Further Reading
- Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy
- MagicLight Bulb Color Mixer with Circuit Playground Bluefruit: Understanding BLE
- All the Internet of Things - Epsiode One: Bluetooth & BTLE
- Nordic Semiconductor: Wireless timer synchronization among nRF5 devices - an interesting, very low-level approach in C for synchonising devices accurately.
- Timothy Jordan: Characteristics of Visual and Proprioceptive Response Times in the Learning of a Motor Skill. 1972. - discussed on ResearchGate: Questions: Do you react faster to a haptic stimulus than to a visual one?
- Simon Thorpe, Michele Fabre-Thorpe: Seeking Categories in the Brain. 2001.
- Espen Tonnessen, Thomas Haugen, Shaher A.I. Shalfawi: Reaction Time Aspects of Elite Sprinters In Athletics World Championships. 2013.
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