1THE REACTION-TIME MACHINE

image

In this chapter, I will show you how to build a time machine—that is, a Reaction-Time Machine. I’d love to say that this project will bring you “back to the future,” but alas, it won’t. The “time” it’s looking at is the time it takes you to react to a stimulus, which makes for a fun game. This project is designed to accurately measure an individual’s reaction time and provide an area for comments on the level of the individual’s performance (see Figure 1-1). There is also plenty of room to personalize the game to make it even more fun for you, your friends, and your family.

Figure 1-1: Completed Reaction-Time Machine ...

Get Arduino Playground, 1st Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.