If you are not familiar with the chess clock, it consists of two countdown timers to track the amount of time left for each player to make a move. Every time a player makes a move, they will press the button to pause their time and resume the opponent's time. Once your time is up, you lose the game!
The requirements for this product:
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It has to show two countdown timers
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The user can set the time before starting the timer
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Player A's timer starts when the program is run
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When Player A's button is pressed, the countdown timer for A stops and the countdown timer for B starts at the same time. The color of the boxes also has to be swapped.
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When one player's timer reaches 0, show "Game Over" message
To extend the functionalities of the chess clock, I plan to incorporate some of the sensors available and connect them to the Raspberry Pi.
I use the Proximity Sensor and the SparkFun Qwiic Button for this project.
Here is how it is in action:
Shout out to Panda Xu and Joshua Schmidt for the inspiration at Designing Interactive Devices class.