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Roshamglo Hookup Guide
Introduction
SparkFun Roshamglo Badge Kit
 KIT-1413 0
The Roshamglo Badge Kit is an easy to assemble badge that allows you to
play Rock-Paper-Scissors with an opponent using infrared (IR)
communication. The Roshamglo will also keep track of your score, which
you can upload to the scoreboard station and see how you're doing against
other people at the event.
Required Materials
To follow along with this hookup guide, you will need the following:
Roshamglo Hookup Guide
Solder Lead Free - 15-gram Tube
TOL-09163
This is your basic tube of unleaded (Pb-free) solder with a 60/40 no cl...
Hakko FX888D Soldering Station
TOL-11704
For over 50 years, Hakko has been producing superior quality solderi...
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  • Page 1 SparkFun Roshamglo Badge Kit  KIT-1413 0 The Roshamglo Badge Kit is an easy to assemble badge that allows you to play Rock-Paper-Scissors with an opponent using infrared (IR) communication. The Roshamglo will also keep track of your score, which you can upload to the scoreboard station and see how you’re doing against...
  • Page 2: Hardware Overview

    Page 2 of 7 If you aren’t familiar with the following concepts, we recommend checking out these tutorials before continuing. IR Communication What is an Arduino? This tutorial explains how common What is this 'Arduino' thing anyway? IR communication works, as well as shows you how to set up a simple IR transmitter and receiver.
  • Page 3 Page 3 of 7 • 3x AAA batteries for power The brains behind the Roshamglo is an ATtiny84, a light weight Arduino compatible microcontroller. The ATtiny84 comes with the following: • 8kB of flash memory for our program (~6kB after the bootloader is installed) •...
  • Page 4: Hardware Assembly

    Page 4 of 7 One important feature missing If you hadn’t noticed in the pin description, there was no mention of RX or TX pins. This is because unfortunately the ATtiny84 doesn’t have a hardware UART. The UART is used for serial communication, whether it’s for programming, or printing messages to the serial window.
  • Page 5: How To Play

    Page 5 of 7 How to Use the Roshamglo To use the Roshamglo, first make sure that the board is on. When you move the power switch to “ON”, the red LED should illuminate. How to Play Playing the game is very straight forward, next to the 5-way switch are three images that correspond to your three possible moves: rock, paper, and scissors.
  • Page 6 5-way switch to the down position (towards the SparkFun Logo and lanyard clip). Just like when you’re playing a game, the green LED will flash a few times. The score will be successfully read when the LED changes to solid green.
  • Page 7 Sensor Hookup Guide Build a Boss Alarm that alerts you of How to connect and use the anyone walking into your office and SparkFun ZX Distance and Gesture automatically changes your Sensor with an Arduino. computer screen. Roshamglo Project: TV-B-...

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