Nerf Shooting Gallery

[[File:Nerf Shooting Gallery – Maker Faire 2015.jpeg|right|400px|Nerf Shooting Gallery at Maker Faire 2015]] Overview

The Nerf Shooting Gallery (not to be confused with the [http://wiki.acemonstertoys.org/Shooting_Gallery Shooting Gallery]) was built during TubeMogul’s 2014 Hackathon, and later donated to the space.

This is a 2 players game where each player needs to shoot 3 targets (each) faster than the opponent. There is 3 different targets size: – the small one is worth 8 points – the medium one is worth 5 points – the big one is worth 3 points

The core of the device is a raspberry pi, running code from [https://github.com/pgrandin/nerfhack https://github.com/pgrandin/nerfhack]

The targets have some aluminum on the back, making contact with two wires when they are on the "low" position, which is in turn connected to the raspberry’s GPIO ports.

The application polls the status of predefined GPIO ports, and display the score for each players using a LED ribbon. The ribbon has 32 LEDs, split in two areas. The 16 LEDS on the left are for player 1 (green) and the 16 LEDS on the right are for player 2 (blue). The first player to shoot down his 3 targets wins the game, and the 32 LEDs will blink with his color for a few seconds.

The game can be restarted by putting the targets in up position, and pressing the reset button on the left side of the gallery.

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