Smart Cornhole Boards React with Lights and Sounds

Cornhole is a crowd favorite. You know what's better? Smart cornhole. Follow along as I attempt my biggest project yet!

Cornhole is far too limited by the lack of dinging bells and blaring horns present on its arcade brethren, skeeball. Time to fix that and elevate cornhole to its proper place on the backyard game winner's podium by adding lights and sound. An Arduino Nano and a few sensors should do the trick!

A massive amount of effort went into learning how to customize these cornhole boards, and they gave me a real boost in confidence for future projects. I've never worked with capacitors, diodes, voltage regulators, or RF modules before this; all crucial for me to become familiar with for later builds.

Thank you so much for your patience as I made this video. I severely underestimated the amount of time I would need to finish it, however I couldn't be happier with the results. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Join me.

-- Parts I used --

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-- Attributions --

Music (in order):

1) Description
2) Song
3) Artist
4) Download
5) License

Mellow Morning by Dixxy from Soundcloud under CC BY-SA 3.0
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I Don't Need U 2 Say Anything by Le Gang from SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0
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Drops In Mind by Le Gang from SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0
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Bottom by Freek Van Workum from Soundcloud under CC BY 3.0
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100 Steps by Le Gang from Soundcloud under CC BY 3.0
(Shortened, final 3/4 cut)
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Merry Bay by Ghostrifter from Soundcloud under CC BY-SA 3.0
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Shush You by Le Gang from SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0
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Strangers by Le Gang from SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0
(Shortened, second half cut)
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The Forest by B3NJ4M1N from FreeBackgroundMusic under No Copyright
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Graphics and Footage:

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3) Artist

yellow-lighted tunnel road by Daniel Jerez from Unsplash
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metal nut by Scrudje from Shutterstock
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Sound Effects:

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2) Download
3) Artist
4) License

Door Slam 2.wav by lyd4tuna from Freesound under CC0 1.0
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BleachHit.wav by eardeer from Freesound under CC0 1.0
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Success Resolution Video Game Fanfare Sound Effect.mp3 by FunWithSound from Freesound under CC BY 3.0
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"Win" Video Game Sound by EVRetro from Freesound under CC0 1.0
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Canada Honcker II.wav by lococleta from Freesound under Sampling Plus 1.0
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Outtake Beep-1k.wav by slappy13 from Freesound under CC0 1.0
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