Switch: Looks Like

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The switches are the centerpiece of the memory game in the Pseudogravity Failure room, in which players must flip the switches in the color order corresponding to the flashing "Failure" sign, which must be noticed at the beginning of the game.

There are at least two options to make them self resetting:

  1. Two magnetic sensors, one at the top and one at the bottom, are activated alternately each time a group goes into the room. This means that the switches merely have to be flipped to the opposite side the next round.
  2. The top magnetic sensor is also an electromagnet that is inactivated briefly after a group goes through the room to drop the switch into the lower initial position.

Sktech Model

The model is made with blue foam, painted black and mounted on plywood. The plywood is painted green to represent one of the colored switches that would exist in the room. The pictures and switch in up and down modes are shown below.

After discussing different variations for how the switch should work, we decided on the following approach:

  1. Touching sensors will be mounted on the guid slots.
  2. If at the end of the game the switch is up (or down), the down (or up) sensor should be contacted in the next game
  3. If at the end of the game the switch is not touching any of the guide slots, one of the slots, the contact of the switch with either of them in the next game will be counted as connection.

It should be noted that the above algorithm is only for the connection of one single switch; however, in order for the group to win, the switches need to be connected with the same order as was shown at the begining of the game.