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Huge interactive crossword

Over 130 Arduino Nano, 130 RFID readers, 750W RGB LEDs.
This is Huge interactive crossword which one I made for National Museum in Warsaw.

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This project was created on 01/09/2020 and last updated 5 years ago.

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Over 130 Arduino Nano, 130 RFID readers, 750W RGB LEDs.This is Huge interactive crossword which one I made for National Museum in Warsaw.Each letter has RFID tag. Under the table are custom made circuits with Arduino Nano, RFID Reader and WS2812B. There is 130 of those circuits and the are connected by I2C interface together to Arduino Mega 2560 which is main brain.So basically table recognize letters and take proper actions.-when there is no letter: LED are dimmed white-when letter is good: LED are green-when letter is bad: LED are red-when whole word is completed: LED play colorful animationMain controller (Arduino Mega 2560) communicates with PC by RS-232.This PC play special graphic visualization on the wall.On the wall each word has graphic visualization.When whole crossword is completed whole table doing disco 🙂 +sound effects.The “Anything Goes” Museum. Exhibition curated by children

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niuyingxian wrote 03/10/2020 at 23:11 • point

I really like this project, I want to build one in our country, can you tell me something about the principle?

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Dan Maloney wrote 01/09/2020 at 18:03 • point

I can't hear that song without thinking of the Gandalf loop...

This was a huge job - so many Nanos! Nice that you pulled it off

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