TWANG Shield Kit

Name: TWANG Shield Kit
SKU: 11386
Price: 36.00 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 5.00 (1 reviews)

(1 Review)

TWANG is an LED strip game that uses a door spring as a controller

Designed by Bart Dring in United States of America

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Hardware and Electronics for Motion Control and CNC.

TWANG is an LED strip game that uses a door spring as a controller

What is it? This is a shield for an Arduino that makes building a TWANG super easy and reliable. TWANG is an LED game inspired by the original line wobbler by Robin Baumgarten. This product includes …

What is it?

This is a shield for an Arduino that makes building a TWANG super easy and reliable. TWANG is an LED game inspired by the original line wobbler by Robin Baumgarten. This product includes all the unique hardware items you would need.

Complete details for building TWANG are on this blog post.

You can buy it in the following ways...

As Partial kit as explained below
Fully assembled with 3D printed parts and programmed Arduino (you add power supply and LED strip)
Ready to play will all parts and a 144 LED 1m Strip (WS2812b type)

Included With Kit

Fully assembled shield
Door Spring
Fully soldered, wired and labeled accelerometer module.
Fully soldered and wired speaker.

Not included With Kit

the 3D printed parts
an Arduino Mega
an LED strip

Why did you make it?

The LED Line games are amazingly fun and challenging. They are a huge hit at parties and events. The game is easy to learn and very hard to master. My first one was hand wired and soldered. It worked great, but it was messy and prone to problems. I made the shield to make it super robust.

What makes it special?

It is very easy to build. You don't need an electronics or soldering skills. All soldering is already done. The board is clearly labelled and so are the wires.

Review Breakdown

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Brian | Feb. 15, 2018

Stop thinking about it, BUY THIS KIT NOW! Tremendous FUN!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you Bart!!!! I received my TWANG kit today and just finished building my first unit using the kit and instructions. Perfection! Everything went together and works smoothly, and is much better than expected! Thanks so much. Sure, I could have tried to build this without the kit, but that would have been much more time consuming, this made it super easy, everything works perfectly, and I can't believe how much fun it is to play TWANG. I'm using the APA-102 144 LEDs / m from Amazon that cost $29.99 each, which is pricey but worth it. Already thinking about adding a second strip. I'm using an inexpensive 5Volt, 6Amp power supply also from Amazon and working great with this kit. By far the best sketch I have ever loaded on my Arduino Mega 2560 that was getting dusty. Now it's happily powering my TWANG / line wobbler game. I never write reviews on any site, but after buying and building this kit and having a really great time, I felt I should spread the word. Where do I upload my pics? Cheers!

Response from Bart Dring | Feb. 16, 2018

I would love to see pictures and videos

You can send them directly to me bdring (at) buildlog (.) net. Or you can post on Twitter or Instagram and tag @buildlog.

Cheers!