Plinko Game

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Drop a puck into the Plinko game and watch the line drawn on a tablet screen via Bluetooth^®!

The Plinko board has an array of light sensors between the pegs. When the puck passes over and blocks the light to the sensor, a command is sent to the PIC^® microcontroller. The PIC^® MCU talks to a Bluetooth^® module to send the sensor coordinate to the application running on the tablet. As the coordinates are sent, a line is drawn showing the path of the the falling puck.

The picture on the left shows the constructed Plinko game and tablet application.

The picture on the right shows a screenshot of the tablet application.

Related Development Kit

Learn more about a related product called EZ App Lynx w/ RN4020 Development Kit! EZ App Lynx is a smartphone/tablet application that pairs with a PIC^® MCU over Bluetooth^® and allows the PIC^® MCUs to control the appearance and control of the GUI on the smartphone/tablet. This allows PIC^® MCU developers an easy way to deploy sensors or controllers that can be controlled from a smartphone/tablet over Bluetooth^®. The PIC^® MCU controls all aspects of the GUI, so the user only needs to install one smartphone/tablet app that works across a broad variety of devices for Android and iOS.

This app requires a Bluetooth^® connection to a PIC^® MCU using the CCS C Compiler with the EZ App Lynx library. For more information on the application and where to download it, go to: http://www.ccsinfo.com/ezapp