Projects

This project is inspired by Bop-It (an interactive hand-held game), where the objective is to complete a collection of Spy-themed reaction-based mini-games in the alotted time. 

This project is inspired by Perplexus (a kid’s toy marble maze game), where the objective is to tilt the sphere with a maze inside, to roll the ball towards the end goal.

Inspired by Etch A Sketch, the mechanical toy board drawing toy, you can draw on a 32×32 LED Display with a variety of colors and print out your pixel art on a receipt printer. Sketch N’ Etch displays animations when idle. 

Inspired by 2T2’s F!rosh Week Theme, we built a stegosaurus dinosaur display. Made out of plywood and strips of LEDs, our Dino lighted up at Galbraith Building during Nitelife.

This project is based off of the Mario Party 4 game “Reverse-a-Bomb!” Do not let the chef rat (yes, you!) get the bad food items on the conveyor belts!

*due to COVID – 19 global pandemic, the completion of Reverse-A-Thing has unfortunately been postponed. We thank all the general members who spend time and effort in planning and designing the display!

This project is based off of a vintage arcade game, Ice Cold Beer, where the objective is to tip the bar to navigate a ball into a specifically lit hole while avoiding all other holes!

Inspired by the Atari Pong game, the goal was to create a 3D version of the game, in which the players rotate physical dials to control the position of the paddles, and the movement of the puck was controlled by a 2-axis gantry!

*due to COVID – 19 global pandemic, the completion of mechanical pong has unfortunately been postponed indefinitely. We thank all the general members who spend time and effort in planning and designing the display!

Inspired by the Plumber Game, we added our own twist to the game! The players need to slide the blocks around, which represent pipes of various shapes and orientation, to complete from the inlet to the outlet.The only way to know the shapes and orientation of the block is to look at the interactive virtual grid displayed on the LED screen!

2018’s F!rosh Week Theme was Spies! We built an infinity mirror box that required Sparkers to make their own LED Strings that they hung in the box themselves whichever way they desired to celebrate orientation week with incoming engineers. Sparkers used their knowledge of circuitry to help build the LED strings!

The Simon display is an electronic version of the old school game Simon! The goal of the game is to remember the flashing light sequence and repeat it correctly! This display was built in one day by 26 Sparkers who cut wood, plywood, painted, tested the electronics and helped assemble the display!

The 3D Snake game is an advanced version of the classic game Snake! The game’s goal is to get as many points as possible while the Snake gets longer and longer. If you run into one of the walls, its Game Over! This innovative display was built from scratch with the help of around 20 Sparkers. They cut wood, soldered wires, tested the electronics, connected all the LED cube layers, and painted the frame all in one workshop!

2017’s F!rosh Week Theme was Star Wars! To celebrate orientation week with incoming engineering Jedis, we built a Star Wars sing topped with two lightsabers that lit up the room, which needed our Jedis’s assistance in training to help fill the weapons with red and blue LED capsules. Sparkers used their knowledge of circuitry to help build the LED capsules!

Our first project this year was based on the classic two-player game, BattleShip! With a keypad on the right side, players can choose where to place their ships and where to attack their enemy’s ground. This innovative display was built from scratch with the help of around 20 Sparkers. They cut wood, soldered wires, tested the electronics and painted the frame all in one workshop!

We designed in November an arcade version of the mobile game NOT NOT! With four buttons positioned in front of the player, they have to answer as many sequences correctly. The sequence gets more complicated as you go on, with the instructions featuring triple negatives and multiple colours!

2016’s F!rosh Week Theme was Marvel! To celebrate orientation week with incoming engineering superheroes, we built two light-up cutouts: one of Captain America and another of Iron Man that needed all kinds of students’ assistance. Sparkers used their knowledge of circuitry to help build the LED capsules and paint the suits on those superheroes!

Our first project this year was based on the old school Connect 4 board game! Consisting of an array of green LEDs and IR emitters and receivers, the display would light up close to an object!

This display is a Whack-a-mole game designed on a “Dance Dance revolution” style gamepad! Each tile represents one of the nine engineering disciplines! The game’s objective is to “whack” as many of the lit-up tiles within 60 seconds. Over 25 Sparkers helped build the display from scratch. They cut and assembled the wood frame, soldered and tested the electronics, painted and polished the exterior and had lots of fun!

The theme for F!rosh Week 1T4 was Lego. Inspired by the classic, “Paint by Numbers” and mosaic art, the incoming Frosh students helped assemble a mysterious image…

The result? A Spark-tacular image of a Lego minifig lighting up the first night of F!rosh Week!

Our first project of the year was a Marble Machine – an intrinsic engineering contraption! Sparkers helped build parts of the machine through which marbles would be going through on their journey from top to bottom!

Our second project was a series of Useless Boxes that would trigger a series of events (in random order!) when a button was toggled. Whether it played some music, flashed LEDs or became a nuisance to you was all randomly generated!

We held our first F!rosh Week workshop in 2012, hosting over 100 F!rosh! The F!rosh put together LED throwies (magnets + LEDs + battery + tape) and tossed them at a metallic F! structure—the final result: a dazzling display of lights commemorating their first day in university!

Having been invited to participate at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche festival, we re-created the Jansen Walker. This time, it was made with PVC pipes, wooden frames, and wooden plates. The machine could walk simply by having someone turn a crank. Who doesn’t want to see such unique structures come alive?

We held our first F!rosh Week workshop in 2012, hosting over 100 F!rosh! The F!rosh put together LED throwies (magnets + LEDs + battery + tape) and tossed them at a metallic F! structure—the final result: a dazzling display of lights commemorating their first day in university!

As our first project, we built a GIGANTIC 12 foot Eiffel Tower using over 1300 cards and 2000 scallops! Spark was also invited by the Daily Planet Show hosted by the Discovery Channel to join them on a segment of their Gigantic Week Series!

What has n legs, n Sparkers building it, with n numbers of wooden frames? Presenting you, the Jansen Walker! With the turn of the handles, you can make the Jansen walk!

Let there be light! We recreated their own version of the Light Chimes! Upon hitting the wooden rods hanging from the ceiling, the lights inside would be activated , creating a phenomenon of moving lights!