Simon

Simon is a game manufactured by Milton Bradley. It is a long-standing favorite introduced by the company in 1978. (Rubin, 2017)

As an occupational therapist, I use games and meaningful activities to increase a person's ability to complete everyday activities. The game of Simon requires attention, fine motor coordination, and frustration tolerance.

In an attempt to learn the physical components of circuits and coding, I used the SparkFun Inventor's guide to make the Simon game using a breadboard, Arduino, jump wires, LEDs, buttons, resistors, a buzzer, and a potentiometer.

Photo Credit: (Games of Berkeley, n.d.)

Gather the following supplies:

• One Breadboard
• One Arduino
• Four LEDs
• Four Resistors
• Four Buttons
• One Buzzer
• One Potentiometer

(SparkFun, n.d.)

This is a step-by-step guide for building the Simon Says Game outlined in the SparkFun Inventor's Kit Experiment Guide - v4.1.

Check out the guide here.

Let's Build!!

Place buttons on the breadboard

(SparkFun, n.d.)

Next, add four LEDs to the breadboard. Be sure the LEDs are different colors.

Awesome! Now, add four resistors to the breadboard.

You are doing great! Next, add a potentiometer to the breadboard.

How are you feeling? Are you proud of how awesome you are doing?

Let's add a buzzer to the breadboard.

You may want to jump for joy with this step!

Add jump wires to each of the buttons.

It's Electric!

Connect the power source to the LEDs and the buttons.

You are doing great!

Connect jump wired between the ground and the buzzer and potentiometer.

A few more wires...

Connect power to the buzzer and the potentiometer.

Make sure it is grounded.

Connect the ground via a wire between the Arduino and the breadboard.

Download code for the game via SparkFun's site

Here is the code in Arduino Web Editor

This code was created and copied from SparkFun.

(SparkFun, n.d.)

Here is what the game looks like on the breadboard!

Try it out!

Have fun!