Button Wars!

Can you click the fastest?

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Team
• Features
• How-To
• Acknowledgments
• Lore

Introduction

Every wanted to try arm wrestling, but you have weak arms? Are you a pro gamer who knows how to mash a button? Gamers and weaklings rejoice, because we have a solution for you! Using our uniquely crafted Arduino setup, we can use a Servo motor to simulate an arm wrestling match. All you have to do is mash the buttons! Be careful though! There is a third player who controls an LED. If the player isn't lighting the LED, you will give a buff to the other player! Who can win in this game of wits? Play our game and find out!

The Team

Srinanda "Nandu" Yallapragada syallapragad@umass.edu Hardware Support Edward "Eddie" Hines ehines@umass.edu Software Support

Features

Some of the notable feature are

• Uses servo motors to turn the arm
• Arduino Uno R3 powered
• LEDs used to indicate status of the game
• Uses Passive Buzzer to indicate end of game
• Battery operated, its a portable game!
• Up to 3 players at a time! Two adversaries and a joker.
• Hidden game mechanics! Use your wits to play with tactics.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to HackUMass 2022 for hosting this event and providing us with the hardware and guidance to complete this 36 hour hackathon.

Lore

At the beginning of all, there were two factions. The button Tappers, and the click buttoners. After being at their throats for over 300 decades, a fragile treaty was signed, and the open war became a quiet one. They disagreed on the most essential artifacts of life. Hair styles, fighting styles, taps vs clicks, green vs blue. Their differences never end, and now you have been dragged into their silent war....