Question How to wire an automated counting system? Please help ;-;

[lookitsducky]

Hi! Not sure the best place to ask this, so feel free to redirect me if needed:

I've been working on and off on this ridiculous fun project for a long time now (based on Plinko/pachinko if you're familiar with either of those) - the idea is you hit a golf ball into this build, then depending where it lands you earn points. A message displays in chat showing how many points you got, and a display shows the total score above the build. I've been able to wire up the messages corresponding to each point value, and am in the middle of putting together the 7-segment display.

My question is: do any of you have advice on a good system for counting points? I'm sure it's possible to wire up some sort of counter/adder, but have spent a surprising amount of time on Google without finding anything that I can understand explaining how to approach this. I have no background in engineering and figure most of this stuff out through Google, so please if anyone has advice or a reference you could direct me to, or if you know someone helpful to talk to please let me know! I uploaded a short demo of what the build does on YT so you can see it for reference.

What I'm looking to do is basically make a system that takes an input 1-5 according to where the golf ball lands, adds that to the existing score, then sends that score to the 7-segment display. I guess I would also need to figure out how to build some sort of manual reset, though would also be nice if I could make it reset once you hit a certain number of points.

Thanks for any help you can give, and nice to meet you all!!

 

[ekinator]

I found the vod of you making the scoreboard, and the tutorial you're following. To add score, all you need is to make 5 dart trap engines. Simply place a dart trap, and in a line in front of it as many teal pressure pads as the points you want to add to the score. Wire the dart traps to their corresponding golf cups, same as the announcement boxes, and all the teal pressure pads to your counter.

The manual reset is easy, and covered in the tutorial video. Resetting at certain amount of points is not as trivial. The line of faulty gates at the top of the module is called a shift register. You can track which digit is currently showing by extending the green/yellow wire up outside the module, so you have space to work with. Which wire you choose depends on what score you want to reset at. Take one of those wires from both modules and connect them to an AND gate, and the output to your reset line.

I hope I described everything as simple as possible.

 

[lookitsducky]

I found the vod of you making the scoreboard, and the tutorial you're following. To add score, all you need is to make 5 dart trap engines. Simply place a dart trap, and in a line in front of it as many teal pressure pads as the points you want to add to the score. Wire the dart traps to their corresponding golf cups, same as the announcement boxes, and all the teal pressure pads to your counter.

The manual reset is easy, and covered in the tutorial video. Resetting at certain amount of points is not as trivial. The line of faulty gates at the top of the module is called a shift register. You can track which digit is currently showing by extending the green/yellow wire up outside the module, so you have space to work with. Which wire you choose depends on what score you want to reset at. Take one of those wires from both modules and connect them to an AND gate, and the output to your reset line.

I hope I described everything as simple as possible.

Thank you so much for responding!! I never would have thought of dart traps, that's a great idea! I'll definitely give that a shot. I do have a switch for manual reset currently, will try to wire up what you described for the automatic reset tonight and see how I fare. Thanks for your help, this is exactly what I needed to move forward with the build!