This project is a fork of the Sparkfun Simon Says Soldering Kit. It contains modifications to the firmware to pass game state over Bluetooth serial so that the Simon Says device can be used as a controller for an Android app. It is my hope that this app will provide a good example for others who wish to combine Android and Arduino.
Simon Says is a memory game. Start the game by pressing one of the four buttons. When a button lights up, press the button, repeating the sequence. The sequence will get longer and longer. The game is won after 13 rounds.
The Simon Says Soldering kit is available from Sparkfun (the git repository only seems to support the PTH version at this time).
The Simon Says (SS) device can control the SS Android app when connected over Bluetooth. This SS app does not perform any game logic and simply shows the game state as reported by the SS device. When the SS device is in attract mode (lights blinking CCW) then the SS app can connect and the game restarts.
To modify an existing SS device to support the SS app you simply need to flash the new firmware, connect a Bluetooth device and launch the SS app. Be sure that the Bluetooth device baud rate matches the baud rate in the firmware (default is 57600).
Connect the Bluetooth device to the SS device as follows:
- Bluetooth VCC to SS 5V (through hole) or SS 3.3V (surface mount)
- Bluetooth GND to SS GND
- Bluetooth Tx to SS Rx (disconnect when uploading sketches)
- Bluetooth Rx to SS Tx
- Bluetooth Cts to Bluetooth Rts (if applicable)
The Bluesmirf Bluetooth module is available from Sparkfun.
# install Arduino
sudo apt-get install arduino
# install ino command line toolkit (optional)
# https://github.com/amperka/ino
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo apt-get install python-configobj
sudo apt-get install python-jinja2
sudo apt-get install python-serial
cd $SRC
git clone git://github.com/amperka/ino.git
cd ino
sudo make install
# lilypad328 is compatible with the Simon PTH kit
cd Firmware/ino
ino build -m lilypad328
ino upload -m lilypad328
The SS app is a fork of the Sparkfun Simon Kit. The SS app uses several git submodules that need to be initialized before the app can be built.
git clone git@github.com:jeffboody/Simon-Says.git
cd Simon-Says
git submodule update --init
Install the Android(TM) SDK and NDK available from http://developer.android.com/
# change to App directory
cd App
# initialize environment variables
<edit profile>
source profile
# build project
./build-native.sh
./build-java.sh
# install apk
./install.sh
# uninstall apk
./uninstall.sh
Started: 6-19-2007
Spark Fun Electronics
Nathan Seidle
Simon Says is a memory game. Start the game by pressing one of the
four buttons. When a button lights up, press the button, repeating
the sequence. The sequence will get longer and longer. The game is
won after 13 rounds.
This code is public domain but you buy me a beer if you use this and
we meet someday (Beerware license).
Simon Says game originally written in C for the PIC16F88.
Ported for the ATmega168, then ATmega328, then Arduino 1.0.
Fixes and cleanup by Joshua Neal <joshua[at]trochotron.com>
Generates random sequence, plays music, and displays button lights.
Simon tones from Wikipedia
- A (red, upper left) - 440Hz - 2.272ms - 1.136ms pulse
- a (green, upper right, an octave higher than A) - 880Hz - 1.136ms,
0.568ms pulse
- D (blue, lower left, a perfect fourth higher than the upper left)
587.33Hz - 1.702ms - 0.851ms pulse
- G (yellow, lower right, a perfect fourth higher than the lower left) -
784Hz - 1.276ms - 0.638ms pulse
The tones are close, but probably off a bit, but they sound all right.
The old version of SparkFun simon used an ATmega8. An ATmega8 ships
with a default internal 1MHz oscillator. You will need to set the
internal fuses to operate at the correct external 16MHz oscillator.
Original Fuses:
avrdude -p atmega8 -P lpt1 -c stk200 -U lfuse:w:0xE1:m -U hfuse:w:0xD9:m
Command to set to fuses to use external 16MHz:
avrdude -p atmega8 -P lpt1 -c stk200 -U lfuse:w:0xEE:m -U hfuse:w:0xC9:m
The current version of Simon uses the ATmega328. The external osciallator
was removed to reduce component count. This version of simon relies on the
internal default 1MHz osciallator. Do not set the external fuses.
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