Circuit Racers
Circuit Racers from Kendall Helbert
Circuit Racers

Check out the video of our final presentation here! http://web.mit.edu/2.00b/www/2013/playsentations/circuitracers.mov

Apologies there were technical difficulties for some of the audio.

For our MIT 2.00B Toy Product Design class, our team created Circuit Racers!, a revolutionary electronic board game has players place battery and led pieces and race to complete the circuit with differently shaped connectors. The first person to win a circuit gets that light in their color! The board was manufactured out of a single machined sheet of Delrin with washers press fit over the pegs. The pieces were milled out of copper-clad FR1 and lasercut acrylic tops, pressed fitted with magnets to hold together and a snug snap fit to the washers on the board.

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Early stage idea generation for our 2013 theme: In the Dark!
Concept Sketches
More Detailed Sketches
Initial poster for concept presentation to the class
Finished board with pieces attached
Simple looks-like model for play testing
The white round pieces represent batteries, the tacks represent LEDs, the aluminum foil rings represent the metal connections around the pegs, and the colored pieces are connectors to complete the circuit.
Simple works-like prototype for our circuit pieces
The red light is on, proving the electrical connection through the pieces work!
Working prototype of our random piece selector, made out of laser-cut acrylic encasing an Arduino coded to randomly light up an LED in the window of which piece to play.
The randomizer selected the middle s-shaped piece!
Selecting the right angle piece!
Aaaaand the straight piece
EAGLE layout I made for a straight piece PCB (we didn't end up using this since we made all the pieces by hand)
Seeing how the pieces look with colored acrylic layered on top
Finished board complete with pieces and playing cards
Example puzzle mode cards of different difficulties
Photo of our team and Mentor Molly! (Not pictured: Mentor Ben Peters). Again check out our presentation video: http://web.mit.edu/2.00b/www/2013/playsentations/circuitracers.mov
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Circuit Racers

Check out the video of our final presentation here! http://web.mit.edu/2.00b/www/2013/playsentations/circuitracers.mov

Apologies there were technical difficulties for some of the audio.

For our MIT 2.00B Toy Product Design class, our team created Circuit Racers!, a revolutionary electronic board game has players place battery and led pieces and race to complete the circuit with differently shaped connectors. The first person to win a circuit gets that light in their color! The board was manufactured out of a single machined sheet of Delrin with washers press fit over the pegs. The pieces were milled out of copper-clad FR1 and lasercut acrylic tops, pressed fitted with magnets to hold together and a snug snap fit to the washers on the board.

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Kendall Helbert
Student at MIT Cambridge, MA