Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Laser Maze by Benicia Makerspace
Home: California, United States
You’ve seen in in the movies, the security system with a field of crisscrossed laser beams, break a beam and the alarm goes off. This is your opportunity to test your skills against a high-tech laser security system, just for fun. Can you successfully step over, under, and around the laser beams without tripping an alarm? The Laser Maze is a timed game based on real security system design details. Skilled guests can navigate through it in a few seconds, but be careful, every time you break a beam it adds three seconds to your time. Feel free to ask us about how it works, with a Raspberry Pi, two Arduino Micros, and eight ESP8266 microcontrollers, every laser is modulated at a different frequency and the laser receivers look for only that specific frequency.
https://www.beniciamakerspace.org
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Benicia Makerspace
Benicia Makerspace is a place where people from across the north eastern SF Bay area come together to learn, collaborate, invent, prototype and test new ideas using state of the art equipment. Our goal is to promote hands-on learning for all ages, by providing access to tools and training that would not normally be accessible for most people.
https://www.beniciamakerspace.orgWhat Inspired You to Make This?
As two avid Makers, Aaron Newcomb and Jim Kennon, we built this for fun (and just because we could). We use it for public events around the Bay Area including the Makerspace’s STEAM Discovery Festival, coming to Solano Community College May 3, 2025. It’s always a crowd pleaser so we keep making improvements to it, currently on the third-generation control system.
