Balance Board Drawing Game

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capyjara
 
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Balance Board Drawing Game

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I'm brand new to this space, I want to build a drawing game using a balance board. and I have no idea where to begin hardware-wise. would love some halp!

I have:
An uplift desk balance board
monitor
programming experience
excitement

I dont have:
any idea what parts i would need or how to connect them

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Re: Balance Board Drawing Game

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Not sure if you're trying to make something like this: https://www.pcbway.com/project/sharepro ... 66d70.html
This type of drawing robots are quite common. But I am not sure how do you want to make a drawing game with balancing board.

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Re: Balance Board Drawing Game

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The first step will be to narrow down your requirements for the hardware by describing the system you want. 'Use cases' and 'user stories' are two common ways to get high-level descriptions of a system that have good connections to buildable/programmable functionality.

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Re: Balance Board Drawing Game

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adafruit_support_mike wrote: Sat Aug 27, 2022 10:48 pm The first step will be to narrow down your requirements for the hardware by describing the system you want. 'Use cases' and 'user stories' are two common ways to get high-level descriptions of a system that have good connections to buildable/programmable functionality.
That makes sense.

The super basic MVP user story would be:
1. Turn on the system that connects the balance board to a screen. Probably via bluetooth.
2. A blank screen with a cursor would appear
3. as the user tilts or turns the balance board, the cursor would move and draw a line.

Quick Follow features:
some sort of controller to:
1. select different colors/line thicknesses
2. start and stop the "drawing mode" and just reposition the cursor
3. save drawings

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Re: Balance Board Drawing Game

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Okay, I think a good place to start would be Turtle Graphics, a long and well-supported drawing system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics

It's so well known there's a standard Python module for it.

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