Display Board

The display board was made using a handheld CNC router called the Origin, made by the company Sharper. It allows work pieces of any size to be cut precisely and accurately by importing an SVG file. The display board was made out of ½" plywood.

SVG File used to cut the display board figure into plywood. There are 36 grid holes in the middle forming the 6x6 grid of the detection system, a single hole for the ball return, and 2 holes to show the example of the hit and miss colors. The cut outs of the ship are intended to show the positions of the boats that have been hit and which are needed in order to sink the ship.

The next step was to make the turquoise colored grid prisms that hold the LEDs and semi-transparent pegs. These would be made out of 1.5" thick pieces of 5x5" floral wet green foam. These were then painted using Montana Black Spray Paint - Cool Cologne. A hole was cut in the middle to fit the pegs. Once the pegs (semi-transparent plastic cups) were glued on from the inside, onto the grid pieces, the entire grid piece was hot glued onto the wooden display board. Stickers and graphics were added to the display board to give it the navy ship inspired appearance similar to that found on the board game. The cut-outs for the ships are illuminated by an LED strip that light up an acrylic panel when a player throws a ball into a grid position that has a ship.

The final display board is shown during a trial game. In the example above the lighted white pegs show a position on the grid that a player hit and failed to hit a ship. The red pegs show that a player threw and successfully hit a ship. On the right, the ship cut-outs are all illuminated to show that all 3 ships were successfully sunk.

Display board after players defeat the game within the time limit.

Display board side view