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Electronic Mastermind

What to do with a game board with no pegs

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I found an old Mastermind game board, with no pegs. I decided to use it to make an electronic game using RGB LEDs and a microcontroller.
  • 1 × ATmega168PA Microprocessors, Microcontrollers, DSPs / ARM, RISC-Based Microcontrollers
  • 2 × 74HC138 Electronic Components / Misc. Electronic Components
  • 1 × MC34063 Power Management ICs / Switching Regulators and Controllers
  • 1 × 78L05 Power Management ICs / Linear Voltage Regulators and LDOs
  • 8 × IRF7316 Discrete Semiconductors / Power Transistors and MOSFETs

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dannieann14 wrote 11/07/2016 at 03:09 • point

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zakqwy wrote 06/15/2015 at 14:38 • point

Oh man, all the Mastermind I played as a kid only had four peg holes. Five! Totally nuts!

Beautiful project. The LEDs look great. How does the interface work for each player?

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Marek Materzok wrote 06/15/2015 at 16:45 • point

This is a Polish edition of Mastermind, sold by the Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza (National Publishing Agency) back when Poland was the Polish People's Republic. Could not find anything about it in the Internet, so I cannot provide more details.
For now, it's a single-player game: the microcontroller randomly generates the combination and provides hints. The guesses are input using a rotary encoder: rotation changes the current color, clicking accepts the color and moves the selection to the next one.

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zakqwy wrote 06/15/2015 at 17:12 • point

Cool design. Can you put up a video of the system in action?

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Marek Materzok wrote 06/15/2015 at 21:33 • point

Happily; but I'll have to do this later, I'm currently on a leave abroad and unfortunately I do not have access to my workshop and my projects I left at home.

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zakqwy wrote 06/15/2015 at 21:34 • point

Sounds great. I'll keep an eye out for it, thanks! 

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