Past Projects

Music and mechanisms

Luke Kitov June 30, 2024 7:43pm Privacy: Public

Music and mechanisms

Created by Luke and Lloyd Graves IV

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LetterMap

Dhruv Mohan January 30, 2025 3:38pm Privacy: Public

LetterMap

By Dhruv & Z

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l5u53zRTiemTj5CNrw8diQ4UW5v9wn_FoCubEPEBE2M/edit

Dhruv's Project Paragraph:

In this project, my group started with two puzzle ideas. The projects we worked on were "LetterMap", and "Stargazing". The "Map puzzle" consists of a map, a pencil, a pronunciation guide, and a few postcards. Ultimately, if you use all of the components of the puzzle, you end up with a name. The memory associated with the map puzzle, is a mixture of geography in school, and just geography in general. The materials we used to design the map puzzle, were acrylic, cardboard, and paper. "Stargazing", consists of a board of stars and constellations, and if you figure out the code to turn on the lights to the stars, it displays a name. The memory connected with this puzzle, is stargazing with family, and trying to make out shapes and and words with the stars. The materials used to make this puzzle were, LEDs, cardboard, construction paper, and wire. In the end, we ended up using "LetterMap", as our final project.

Car track puzzle

Bennett Dowers June 30, 2024 7:42pm Privacy: Public

Model Car puzzle

by: Ben

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Car Track Puzzle is a puzzle designed for an escape room where you input a code you get from a cypher on a poster, releasing a car down a track that flips flags that spell a name. The keypad works using an Arduino and 4 buttons labeled 6, 7, 8, and 5. The code for the Arduino uses an array to tell if the buttons are correctly pressed. For the track, the car starts at the top in a box with a flap attached to a servo. when the code is entered, the flap opens, releasing the car down the track. The flag flipping mechanism uses a lever in the middle of the track attached to the same shaft as the flag. As the car passes over the levers, they flip down into the track, rotating the shaft and lifting the flags. This project is meaningful because it might be chosen to be part of an escape room, and solving the puzzle would give the people in the escape room joy and satisfaction.