Pac-Man on a String

Pac-man style game in 1-dimensional space.
Realtime events and scores published to the cloud, and immediately reflected on a Leaderboard.
Made for the inaugural Oracle Maker Faire in November 2016.
Exihibited at Maker Faire Bay Area in May, 2017.
Toured around the world with Oracle Code 2017 events in 20 cities.

A close-up of the build: the game is played on an LED strip using a joystick.

A clear housing box lets you see the insides of the build. This is wireless version using NodeMCU for connection to Internet.

The maker team and the mentors.

Center stage at the Oracle Maker Faire.

Kids love playing it! Try to beat the high score :)

Built wire-connected version for Oracle Code events, to account for noisy conference setting.

Getting it ready for world tour.

I mobilized Makeable Club members, to build 4 sets of game equipments. One set for Asia, Europe and the Americas, with 4th set in HQ as backup :)

Played at Code Prague. He was really into the game and made to the top of leaderboard at Code Prague event.

Played at Code Seoul. The maker with event hosts in Seoul.

Get it ready at Kscope17 in San Antonia, TX.

Links

Build your own on using design and instruction I documented on Instructables.
Watch it in action on Youtube.