The project started late in the afternoon on Friday.

Armed with a jigsaw cutter and some screws, a sheet of plywood and some paint Ed went about building the prototype housing for the 4 big gaming buttons for the quiz game.

After a couple of hours the housing had been built ready to fill, sand and paint.

The main part of the electronics were based on an old xbox controller. Ed harvested the PCB from a controller he had in his spare parts box. The reason behind using the controller was because driver and code support is readily available online and plenty of spare parts are cheap and again easy to get hold of. The exciting possibility of one day going wireless by using an xbox 360 controller was another reason for building using an xbox controller pcb.

On to the electronics.

Early testing went well so Ed cracked on with the finishing touches to the box.

Using his multimeter Ed identified the points on the pcb where he was going to solder the 4 buttons to. He got to work with his trusty soldering iron and hot glue gun.

2 coats of white undercoat followed by 2 coats of white satinwood gave the box a clean finish.

The main purpose of our quiz game is for us to design, build and showcase some hands on digital interactive experience equipment.

Many uses other than a quiz can be achieved with a similar build, for instance an interactive questionnaire on a shop floor. The specific company could gather their customers opinions and feedback based on a set of questions. Changing the buttons to Yes, No, maybe or Agree, Disagree etc. This would remove the awkward moment where a member of staff armed with a clip board approaches a customer to ask questions and replaces it with a quick, easy to use interface where a customer can answer honestly with total anonymity.

The buttons can be built into a stand alone unit together with its own screen allowing it can be placed in an appropriate location in order to maximise customer involvement without hindering the day to day use of the shop floor.

We chose a quiz game so we can have fun in the office once the build was finished.