Interactive Rock Climbing Wall
By Poppy Mosbacher. Posted
This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.
This interactive climbing wall turns a small surface area into a multi-route activity. Each climbing hold has an LED inside, which lights up when it’s part of the selected route.
The designer, Alexia Cohen, has shared the plans for the prototype on Instructables. The LEDs are programmed using an Adafruit Feather board, which is bluetooth enabled so the routes can be controlled with a phone. “The circuit is pretty straight forward, 21 NeoPixels arranged in a chain, separated by long wires to reach from one hold to the next”, says Alexia.
She moulded the holds from Plasteline using hand carving tools and says, “Once you are happy with your form and the surface is smooth, you will want to add a texture. Be creative! anything that you can press into the clay to create texture will be good.”
Instructions are available here.
Poppy is a maker and writer. She loves getting tech into the hands of people who do traditional crafts. She is helping set up a makerspace in Devon and was a director of BuildBrighton makerspace.
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