Light Tag With CPX

With this project we were looking to use multiple cpx units to make a fun game of light tag.

IntermediateWork in progress1 hour418

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express

Adafruit NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Strip - White 30 LED - WHITE

Software apps and online services

Microsoft MakeCode

Story

Created by Lylly Hoang, Jeffrey Fox, Randall Forehand, and Nora Barnes

Our group has created a game called "Red vs. Blue" by using the circuit board express.
It's a more strategic redesign of the classic game of "TAG". At least two teams of two are required to play (a total of four people). Each person will have to put on a pair of modded suspenders that come with a CPX attachment on the back, and two LED wrist bands.

How it works is the CPX units uses the onboard lights and light sensor as well as an external LED strip. The on board lights show which team the player is on and when the on board Light sensor picks up a bright light of a different color the on board lights change color, thus making the player change teams.
How to Play:
The "A" and "B" buttons on the CPX light up all the LEDs as blue or red.
Two players must join red team and the other two must join blue. Once teams are established, the game begins.
The objective of all the players is to shut down the enemy team. When a wrist band is shined over the color sensor
of the CPX on the opposing team, they will lose all their lights (this indicates that player being "out"). The last color standing wins.

Here is a demo of how the project works.

Concept art for suspenders

Light Tag with CPX

let strip: light.NeoPixelStrip = null
let strip2: light.NeoPixelStrip = null
let light2 = 0
let currentColor = 0
input.buttonA.onEvent(ButtonEvent.Click, function () {
strip.setAll(0xff0000)
light.setPixelColor(3, 0xff0000)
light.setPixelColor(4, 0xff0000)
light.setPixelColor(5, 0xff0000)
light.setPixelColor(6, 0xff0000)
light.setPixelColor(7, 0xff0000)
light.setPixelColor(8, 0xff0000)
})
input.onSwitchMoved(SwitchDirection.Left, function () {
strip2.setAll(0xff0000)
})
input.buttonB.onEvent(ButtonEvent.Click, function () {
strip.setAll(0x00ff00)
light.setPixelColor(3, 0x00ff00)
light.setPixelColor(4, 0x00ff00)
light.setPixelColor(5, 0x00ff00)
light.setPixelColor(6, 0x00ff00)
light.setPixelColor(7, 0x00ff00)
light.setPixelColor(8, 0x00ff00)
})
input.onSwitchMoved(SwitchDirection.Right, function () {
strip2.setAll(0x00ff00)
})
forever(function () {
strip = light.createStrip(pins.A1, 21)
strip2 = light.createStrip(pins.A2, 6)
light2 = input.lightLevel()
strip.setBrightness(255)
console.logValue("x", input.lightLevel())
if (input.lightLevel() > 20) {
currentColor = input.ambientColor()
strip.setAll(currentColor)
light.setPixelColor(6, currentColor)
light.setPixelColor(7, currentColor)
light.setPixelColor(8, currentColor)
light.setPixelColor(3, currentColor)
light.setPixelColor(4, currentColor)
light.setPixelColor(5, currentColor)
music.baDing.playUntilDone()
pause(5000)
}
})