This entire job might have been done as an app, drawing the labyrinth as well as sphere virtually on the screen. however that wouldn’t have been almost as fun as what [Matt] accomplished. He developed a bit Labyrinth which responds to the accelerometer in his phone.
Take a close look at that handset. It’s not an Android, an iPhone, or a Blackberry. That thing is a Windows phone…. no, really! The phone doubles as a timer, which we believe is a nice touch. It communicates with a Netduino which is both driving as well as tracking the Labyrinth.
You may have noticed that the labyrinth is hand-built rather than a customized industrial version of the toy. He mounted some hardboard on a pair of servo motors, then developed up the labyrinth on that surface. There is likewise sensing hardware that detects when the metal sphere bridges two contacts. This provides us fond memories of our Minotaur’s Revenge build.
We’ve embedded the demo video after the break.
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