This project uses a standard school locker with two 8*8 holes grids. 5 mm LEDs fits beautifully in those holes, small tactile switches too, a LCD display can be added in the name's tag space, thus a boring locker can be easily transformed into a multi-game arcade cabinet. Enjoy!

Prototype:

Presentation video in french, shows the running prototype.

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. Check LICENSE.txt for more informations.

• Main menu (LCD + Matrix):
  • 1 player games:
    • Snake
    • Flappy Bird
    • Breakout (not currently implemented)
    • Race (not currently implemented)
  • 2 player games:
    • Pong
    • Snake
  • About screen with hidden option menu & student's schedule display
• Event-driven software
• Multi-languages interface, easily localizable
• Screensaver with delay depending on context
• High-scores logging (not currently implemented)
• Sounds (not currently implemented)
• Alarm when opening locker without pressing a predefined sequence of buttons
• Automatic standby based on time (not currently implemented)

• Arduino (I use a Nano with an ATmega328)
• MAX7219/MAX7221 with 8*8 LED matrix
• I2C 16*8 LCD display
• 5 momentary pushbuttons
• DS3231 I2C RTC (optional) (not currently implemented)
• Piezoelectric buzzer (optional) (not currently implemented)
• Photocell (LDR) (optional) (not currently implemented)

Please look at config.h to configure the system and pins.

I currently use Arturo to compile the sketch. If you want to use the Arduino IDE, you must:

• Copy all libraries in lib in Arduino's libraries folder or use the Library Manager to install them (Arduino IDE >= 1.6.2))
• Add #include <LedControl.h>, #include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h> and #include <Sodaq_3231> at the top of src/ArcadeLocker.ino
• Rename the src directory to ArcadeLocker

• Sounds!!
• Better localization system (kind of ugly right now, I guess?)
• Events handling optimization (loops)
• Enhance newLcdScroll() (start position, spaces before looping)
• Settings storage in EEPROM
• High scores with the ability to enter a name or initials
• Maybe add a custom malloc() to dynamically allocate app's variable memory and not having all those global variables taking place in memory (or just use malloc()?)
• Put animations instead of scrolling text on matrix and maybe remove all that code to scroll text on the matrix now that there is an LCD display
• Remove unnecessary timer events when first launching them in games (just call the callback function, no need to wait on start)
• Reorganize functions order in apps' code to stay consistent between them
• Enhance printLcd() to center text automatically? (would consume cycles using strlen())
• Put strings buffers in an array?
• Add animations to screensaver