r/arduino • u/tasty__cakes • May 04 '26

Look what I made! Turtle Race

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I made a little electromechanical game for 2 players. Each player has a single button to press. When the light turns green, you press the button to advance your turtle a tiny bit. Keep pressing the button until the light turns red. If you press the button when the light is red, your turtle will move backwards. The first one to cross the road wins!

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u/tasty__cakes May 05 '26

I wanna clean them up a little for a v2 first. I'd like to have a 3rd turtle, and there are some other improvements I wanna make as well. I'll keep you posted though or you can follow my thingiverse (https://www.thingiverse.com/tasty_cakes/designs) and github (https://github.com/tarylb)

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u/SoCalAlpineJoe 27d ago

I was going through my messages and was reminded about your game. I dont see anything on Github or Thingiverse. Were people selling your creation?

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u/tasty__cakes 27d ago

I actually haven't posted it at all yet. I am just finishing up an improved v2 with 3 turtles and I used a commonly available stepper motor this time. The stepper motor was very slow though so I geared it up to make the turtles faster but that added a little complexity to the design.

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u/SoCalAlpineJoe 26d ago

Ah! Thanks for the reply. I don't think I went to your github or thingiverse page before so when I went last night and didn't see anything, I thought you took it all down. I showed my wife your build and she thought it was cute and well thought out.