With the conversion of classic board games like Settlers of Catan, Risk and the Game of Life to simplistic apps, we feel that these digitized versions don’t have the fun and intrigue as their cardboard counterparts do. At the same
time, as any board game player can attest, maintaining play pieces and cards for the board game is quite a challenge! And so we asked ourselves: how do we combine the satisfaction of a board game with the simplicity of an app?
Our
project is a cross between that satisfaction and simplicity, with a digital implementation of Monopoly - Digitopoly.
Our project is currently in the development stage, with a mostly completed prototype and our PCBs in transit for our final product.
We are a diverse group of individuals with incredibly varied backgrounds, which has allowed for very easy conceptualization and development of our project.
By the end of December, we hope to have achieved the following objectives with respect to our project:
- An ability to transmit the orientation of a die to a microcontroller wirelessly.
- An ability to send a signal to a mechanism that will move the pieces on the board.
- An ability to manipulate game state with the use of human interface devices like buttons and/or a scroll wheel.
- An ability to display a live game board similar to the original Monopoly board on a screen.
- An ability to move from one state of the Monopoly game to another.
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Digitopoly Team Course Progress
Digitopoly Team Hardware Progress
Digitopoly Team Software Progress
Digitopoly Team PCB Progress
Below are copies of the datasheets for the embedded components used in our project. We use this information to determine the best parts for our project as well as find out their power requirements and/or data transmission protocols.
Below is the PCB layout for both the main game board and our wireless dice.
Project Documents for ECE 477