Dance Llama

The Project

This is a dance mat game to help young people have fun and to help older people with their balance.

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Hardware

Health

Fun

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Team Comments

We chose to make this project because...

We read that dancing games could help older people from having falls so we wanted to make a fun one that could also be played and enjoyed by children too. https://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/innovations-in-community-centred-support/directory/Falls-prevention-through-dance/

What we found difficult and how we worked it out

We accidentally knocked the Raspberry Pi off the desk and it shorted some of the wires and rebooted. But we hadn't saved our Scratch game for a while and we lost some of our work and had to re-code it.

Next time, we would...

We need to fix then scoring so that you can't just press the correct pad many times before the next one appears and get extra points