Last night, I spent some more time on the Bop It! game, and it was pretty frustrating. I was attempting to hook up my amp and speaker so that the game can issue instructions, but that didn’t work so well. The speaker can only really emit some sort of beep-like sounds (it’s very challenging to play the .wav files I had created). I think that’s a combo of the Pico’s memory and power and the speaker itself. This was really frustrating but I was able to reflect on it overnight and have a slightly different plan. Instead, I’ll hook up an LCD display that displays the instructions, and include some custom “beeps” to go along with the game play that indicate the different moves that will be made. I started working on hooking up the display today and that worked pretty well, although I don’t love the display I chose. So, I think I’ll buy a new display and then up next will be figuring out the power source for the game and making the custom beeps work, and then figuring out how to solder it all together!
Taking a crash course on YouTube on soldering and some lessons include: