The Radio Game Controller

The radio game controller was designed by deconstructing a Sony radio and filling it with the parts of the circuit playground express and some alligator clips to allow for the radio to control a game on a computer. To stick with the theme of music and sound we chose to use this radio in controlling the game Osu, a rhythm game in which the player moves side to side collecting notes that play to the song and increase your score. In deconstructing this radio, the main board was taken out and replaced with the Circuit Playground Express. After that was placed the alligator clips were fed to the necessary nodes on the radio in order to control a game with the code and tools.

The radio controller uses Microsoft MakeCode to tell the controller what to do. In the code provided you can see the input being specified for the user to either move the knob to the left or right a certain value in order to control the movement of the character in game. In the video used you can see the user turning to knob on the front face of the radio to control the direction of the player to gain points and rack up a high score.