LaCaja
(TheBox) A self-contained scaped-room
What is this?
It is a self-contained scape-room type game project. The story of the game is about Google creating this IoT device full of sensors and actuators that poses logic and lateral thinking challenges to recruit engineers for its new center in Malaga. The game is guided by Chiquito de la Calzada personified by a Telegram Bot with voice and text generated by artificial intelligence.
How?
- NodeRED: To manage the game
- Mongo DB: A a database
- Telegram Bot: To explain the game
- MQTT: For communications
- Google Sites: As a landing page
- FakeYOU: To generate audio
- Canva: For graphic design
- KiCAD: For schematics
- C Code and 5 ESP8266s boards: As a core of the project
Results
- Built a fully functional prototype and had users trying it.
- Actually presented it to the Google Málaga Team itself.
- Gained media impact with several appereances.