“This project has been developed with the Games contest in my mind, I hope youll like it and give your vote :)
The idea of this project is quite simple. I want to simulate as many board games as possible using a simple electronic assembly. Of course, every game with its own software, which must be loaded into the simulators microcontroller. Thus, I could simulate games like: Ludo, Ladders and Snakes, Morris, Checkers, a bunch of different dice based games… Nowadays, unfortunately, children have lost interest in board games, what attracts them are the computer games with the most realistic graphics and audio effects, that require a large storage space and dynamic memory. Who knows, maybe working with them in carrying out this project, we will be able to distract them from the computer screens and point them to the basic games. Of course, I am aware that there are many other game projects on Arduino, but most of them are based on the use of an LCD or OLED display, I have seen very few projects similar to mine that only use RGB LEDs assembly to simulate games.
For a first draft of this project, I thought of doing a simulation of the game Ladders and Snakes, but in the end I told myself why not do the oldest strategy game of all time, played by millions of people, the game of games, which is Chess. I could have made a system that connects to the Internet and takes over the moves from a powerful chess program (like for example stockfish…). I could have used a hybrid system like a microcontroller (in the game simulator) connected to a Raspberry Pi, I could have entered and displayed the moves on an LCD keypad, as in the micro-Max variant on the Arduino Mega. But no. I was stubborn enough to make a completely autonomous system to play chess on an… * drumroll * Arduino PRO MINI and a display made with an array of RGB leds .”