Overview

By:Najee Kitchens,
Christopher Mobley

For our final project we decided to create an mbed version of the American game show Wheel Of Fortune using pushbuttons, the uLCD, visual studio, and a speaker for audio output. For simplicity reasons the game features only two players. Pushbuttons were used as digital inputs to the mbed corresponding to the player's power spinning the wheel. Puzzle words were chosen from a predetermined 11 choice range of words all relating to Georgia Tech. Displayed on the uLCD is the power status bar corresponding to the player's power of the spin. Once a player spins the wheel letters are input from the computer keyboard by serial communication to the mbed. If the input letter is contained inside the puzzle word an audio sound will alarm corresponding to number of times the letter appears. The player's money is then multiplied by the number of times the letter appears inside the puzzle word. This is repeated until the player inputs a letter not in the puzzle word, spins a "lose your turn", or decides to solve the puzzle. All visual aids pertaining to the wheel spin, puzzle letters, money, and hints are displayed from visual studio.

Components

• mbed
• uLCD
• Pushbutton
• Speaker

Hookup uLCD

Hookup Speaker

Hookup Pushbutton

Wheel Images

These images within the .gif are needed to display the wheel animation. To convert from .gif to .png use an online free converter. The images are used in the visual studios c# code.

Displays

Demo

Example Code

MBED C++

Visual Studios C#

Here is the C# solution files for Visual Studio: /media/uploads/cmobley7/windowsformsapplication1_-2-.zip