{"id":137138,"date":"2022-03-20T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T16:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/going-around-in-circles-with-homemade-arcade-classic-cyclone"},"modified":"2022-03-20T09:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T16:03:46","slug":"going-around-in-circles-with-homemade-arcade-classic-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/going-around-in-circles-with-homemade-arcade-classic-cyclone","title":{"rendered":"Going Around In Circles With Homemade Arcade Classic Cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1K0vr-hrh0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The classic arcade game <em>Cyclone<\/em> has attracted many players, along with their coins, thanks to its simple yet addictive gameplay. In its most basic form it consists of a light racing around a circular track, which the player then has to stop at exactly the right place. Arduino enthusiast [mircemk] made <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/184467-diy-arduino-cyclone-game-with-ws2812b-led-ring\" target=\"_blank\">a home version of this game<\/a>, which allows addicts to keep playing forever without running out of quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of an arcade cabinet, this smaller version has an upright 3D-printed ring that holds 60 WS2812 LEDs. A further six in the center of the ring act as a score counter. An Arduino in the base drives the LEDs and runs the game, which is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/CycloneArduino-LED-Game\/\" target=\"_blank\">an earlier iteration built by [oKeeg]<\/a>. An interesting addition is a large homemade \u201carcade button\u201d, which is large and sturdy enough to withstand any abuse inflicted on it by a frustrated player.<\/p>\n<p>Retro-style sound effects and flashing light sequences give the game a bit of an arcade vibe, even without a big cabinet and piles of coins. Simple LED games like this are always great eye-catchers in any home or office; if you like this one, be sure to check out other LED games like the <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/11\/11\/ledboy-is-a-retro-modern-handheld-game\/\">handheld LEDBOY<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/01\/24\/diy-dungeon-crawler-game-plays-on-single-led-strip\/\">one-dimensional dungeon crawler TWANG<\/a>, and this <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/08\/12\/virtual-racers-battle-it-out-on-portable-ws2812-track\/\">LED racing game<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic arcade game Cyclone has attracted many players, along with their coins, thanks to its simple yet addictive gameplay. In its most basic form it consists of a light racing around a circular track, which the player then has to stop at exactly the right place. Arduino enthusiast [mircemk] made a home version of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1509,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-entertainment","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}