About steady hand games

Repeatedly ; The good news is that the box buffers the sound a bit :. We made a few of these with different shapes. A squiggly heart, a spiral and a blue sky cloud. All with lots of abstract bendiness to make the game harder. This is the coolest idea Anne! This is a great project!!

Yes, just check that the voltage output is the same and that the pack fits in the box. To use: run the loop along the copper wire. The goal is to NOT touch the wire. If you touch the wire, the light will turn on. Try bending the bare copper wire into different shapes to make the game harder. Create a game with a friend where you take turns bending a course out of the wire and seeing how many times the other one sets off the light going through the course.

The Steady Hands Game is basically an electric circuit with a switch. In order for a circuit to work, electricity has to flow through it. Whenever the loop on the LED touches the bare copper wire, electricity can flow from the battery, through the LED, through the wire, and back to the battery, which turns on the circuit.

I introduced this project in my after school "Makerspace " class this fall as a follow up to Squishy Circuits and a challenging way to look at a simple circuit in a different way. It was so engaging that I have used it as the foundation for our entire 10 week term; and in the process, have introduced 3D modeling and printing, working with metal, soldering, building with cardboard, laser cutting and vinyl cutting all to create their own custom Steady Hand Games. All of these skills are part of my Makerspace program, but usually taught in unrelated ways.

Introduction: Steady Hands Game. By CMHouston Follow. More by the author:. You have been asked to create such a game for a school that has children with learning disabilities. To make an electronic circuit to be built into the game. To make the main wooden body to hold the circuit.

To shape the wire into an interesting and fun shape. To make the wire follower. To research children's toys and to produce a both a web -diagram and initial ideas. To write a design brief and an orthographic drawing of the final game. To evaluate the game by either playing with it yourself and making notes as to how successful it is, or by giving it to a small child to play with whilst you make notes as to how the child reacts to the game.

The game should test hand to eye coordination skills. The game should have a stable base to hide the circuit. The game should have a 'follower' to trace around a suitable wire shape. The game should have a product name.