Jumble Game?

[jlochey]

Hi everybody,

I have a question, or better put I need advice.

Remember doing those "Jumble" puzzles or word scramble puzzles in the newspaper?

Well, I'd like to make a project that would read from a list of predefined words (like 500 words) and then jumble them and display it to an LCD display.

Here is the question:

Before I do anything with the PicAxe, could I try to "model" this concept with the PicAxe Editor only? Would that be possible? Is there anyway to "model" the functionality of the LCD at all?

Thanks in advance,


John

 

[manuka]

PICAXE "crunching" strengths are with numbers rather than letters. Hence how ambitious is this - akin to =>www.armoredpenguin.com/wordscramble/ ? Target audience & ages? How are words entered- keyboard?

 

[jlochey]

Wow! I like that website! Very cool!

Well my target audience is my 6/8/10 year old children.

I had envisioned having a "library" of 100+ words stored right in the code somewhere and then randomly picking a word, read the word into an array, mix it up and dump it to the LCD?

Probably over simplifying this a bit aren't I? ; )


I'm also probably making it quite clear that I don't know what the PicAxe can and cannot do! : )


John

 

[womai]

The Picaxe itself doesn't have enough memory to hold several hundred words. But you can use an external EEPROM, which is quite simple to interface through I2C (just 2 lines with 2 pullup resistors). Such EEPROMS can hold 65K characters and more (e.g. Microchip 24LC512).

Wolfgang

 

[manuka]

This soon starts eating into tight budgets- especially if more than one needed ! As the audience (even at that tender age) will no doubt already be keyboard literate, you may even be better off with a web based approach akin to that link above. Kids can just download as needed & you'd have no hardware setup costs. Stan