Quiz-O-Tron 3000 Arduino quiz lockout system

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Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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January 15th, 2011

If you’re an aspiring Alex Trebek with some Arduino skills, you should check out RoysterBot’s Instructable on how to make a Quiz-O-Tron 3000, an electronic quiz contestant lockout system, which allows contestants to “buzz in” during trivia games. He used it at a holiday party and therefore needed something sturdy enough to withstand the hand slams of inebriated party goers. Hacking up a few Staples “Easy Buttons” proved to be the perfect—and cheapest—solution.
[via Adafruit]

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