A riddle wrapped in an enigma… made simple, with Arduino Plug and Make Equipment

The Arduino Plug and Make Equipment was designed to open up infinite prospects, breaking down the concept know-how is a “black field” reserved for specialists. With its snap-together system, this equipment provides everybody – newbies and seasoned makers alike – the ability to create and innovate with out limitations. Neglect being a passive consumer! With the Plug and Make Equipment, know-how is accessible and able to deliver your concepts to life.

Meet Giulio Pilotto, Plug and Make Equipment Star

Giulio Pilotto is one among Arduino’s senior software program engineers and works intently on Arduino Cloud tasks. Once we held a “Make Tank” workshop at our Turin workplace to showcase the potential of the Plug and Make Equipment, he joined in with inspiration from a latest escape room expertise. 

The consequence was Riddle Treasure, a puzzle-based sport that lets you recreate the thrill of an escape room anyplace you’re.

At this 12 months’s Maker Faire, Pilotto had the chance to current Riddle Treasure on the Arduino sales space. Whereas he had showcased his personal creations at earlier Maker Faire editions, this time felt particular: “The Maker Faire is at all times a beautiful high-energy occasion,” he says. “I used to be joyful to characterize the Arduino group as we focus greater than ever on the group: all our merchandise have been offered within the gentle of what individuals can do with them.” 

Riddle Treasure

To be sincere, that is most likely probably the most superior venture our in-house “Make Tank” got here up with (up to now!). In any case, it needs to be considerably sophisticated to emulate intricate escape room puzzles! Nonetheless, following Pilotto’s step-by-step directions on Challenge Hub and leveraging the simple snap-together mechanism of Modulino nodes, anybody can recreate Riddle Treasure – and even invent a private, distinctive variation.

The objective of the sport is to unlock a protected. However to get there, you must full three steps so as. 

1. Mixture Lock: First, you could rotate the encoder in Modulino Knob like a protected’s mixture lock. Whenever you hit the suitable place, one of many lights on Modulino Pixels turns from crimson to inexperienced. Whenever you get all 5 LEDs to show inexperienced, you possibly can transfer on to the following step. 

2. Secret Sentence: Use the banana cables to attach the phrases within the panel. Whenever you get all of them in the suitable order to kind the key sentence, a password is revealed on the LED matrix of the UNO R4 included within the Plug and Make Equipment. 

3. Ultimate Unlock: Enter the password by way of Modulino Buttons, and watch the protected unlock! 

We care for the complexity, so you possibly can merely plug into tech!

Arduino has achieved the onerous work so you possibly can play and have enjoyable even with intentionally complicated tasks like this one. 

“Constructing this with out having to solder, and even fear about settings or any electronics side in any respect, is a sport changer. With Plug and Make Equipment, Arduino has already chosen and optimized the Modulino sensors: all it’s a must to do is put them collectively to get began in your concepts,” Pilotto says. 

Search Challenge Hub for “Plug and Make” to seek out Riddle Treasure and lots of extra concepts, and get impressed to create your individual wonderful tasks with the Plug and Make Equipment!