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We run an Escape Room in Charleston SC. http://www.escape60.com
Hopefully you are familiar with the Escape Room concept, if not, please see our web site. It is a family entertainment game where groups have to try to escape from a room within one hour. The build out below is for our Ransom room. It is a creepy room where the story is you are trying to get your child back from a Kidnapper. Without that context some of these requests are strange.

We are building out a new room and need some unusual items. I was hoping I could define our needs exactly and work with one of your team members to build the unit. I don’t need a production run. I am only looking for 2 or 3 of each device. Here is a brief breakdown of what we need.

Unit 1 – biometric sensor
2x SEN-12041 Capacitive Touch Breakout. Place them on opposite sides of the room in one circuit. To “activate” the circuit two people have to touch the buttons at the same time. Sort of like the old “simultaneous key lock” for the nuclear missiles on 70’s TV. That will send a signal to a dc powered solenoid and speaker. (see below)

Unit 2 – Train station
Easy hit. We need you to wire up something that takes the output of the Capacitive Touch Breakout and does 2 things at the same time;
A) Drops (retracts) a solenoid – same as used for a cheap mag door lock. This allows a brio wooden train to roll down the track. Solenoid was blocking it from moving until it drops.
B) At the same time, or maybe 2 sec delay, start the sound board. Sound file should play one time. Sound file will be of a RR Train. The model train guys have tons of files so no concerns there.

Unit 3:
Motion detector or series of them. We have the bed, we would just mount this to the bottom of the bed we already have.
A) As user reaches their hand under the bed it triggers the motion detectors.
B) That turns a motor hooked to a jack in the box. The jack is turned upside down so that he “springs” out of the bed and toward the floor.
C) the team has to get something from under the bed. As they reach back 2 things)
1) First beam tripped we turn the motor. Gives the creepy music and warns them something is about to happen.
2) If they try to reach through real fast and grab – to avoid the music, we need to trigger the Jack. We can do that by having a second IR beam very close to the object and when that is tripped the Jack deploys. If it already deployed then nothing additional happens, it just pushes on the piece of metal a second time.
D) Awesome “nice to have” – but not need to have. Can the music play faster as they move back through the detectors. I am imagining 3 or 4 so that each additional one you trip makes the motor turn faster which makes the music play faster.
E) Another nice to have is that if they pull their hand out – because they are scared, then the motor stops.

Unit 4
Terrible video feed.
We have a maze for a small RC car. The idea is the group has to drive the car around the maze to push out a key or a ball with a code in it. The original idea was to have the transmitter across the room where they could not see the maze. Then the group has to work together with one being the eyes while another drives. However, the remotes on our little RC cars are terrible – but they are cheap. So the new idea is to put a thin board over the maze. Now the remote is near the maze but you can’t see through. To reverse it we get a cheap web cam / video and film from under the maze through a piece of plexigalss. (easy for us to do as we can elevate the maze to any level we want). We want a poor quality display on the other side of the room. Something on a small lcd maybe. This is the “eyes” for the maze so they can see how to get out.

Unit 5:
Finger print reader acting as a switch for a door lock / magnet.

Thank you in advance,

Robert Webb
Owner
Escape in 60, LLC