Quizzy Pi | Devpost

Hardware setup
Webpage

Inspiration

We all have watched those thrilling quiz shows where the contestants have to eagerly listen and press the buzzer first to answer.So we've decided to create a similar experience for you to play with your friends.

What it does

Quizzy Pi is a game of quiz that you can play with your friends.Currently it is capable of playing with 3 players and a host.The host will be moderating the game and alloting points for each right answer.You can play with/without the hardware.But playing with the buzzer is much more fun.So we've created a buzzer system similar to those in TV shows but with a twist.We have made buzzers out of Ultrasonic Sensors so you don't have to actually touch the buzzer in fact smash the around above it :D .

How we built it

We created a webpage which will fetch random general knowledge data from API and then display it.
You can not only see the question but also on click of a button you can check the answers too!
We added a feature to enable the users put up their own name.
We have used a raspberry pi and interfaced 3 HC SR04 sensors to act as buzzers.
We have made a webpage for the frontend and used key-binds for each players. So that this can be played without hardware by allotting each player with the key in the keyboard.

Challenges we ran into

Getting the suitable difficulty level questions was quite a bit of a challenge.
Initially we thought of using pygame to build the hack but ended up leaving that because we found that it would be nice if build a webpage and also achieve dual functionality.
Interfacing the HC - SR04 was a bit challenging because the output voltage from the sensors where to reduced using a voltage divider network.