Unlocking the Business Secrets of Escape Rooms

Re:Unlocking the Business Secrets of Escape Rooms by wallflower on Sunday May 06, 2018 @06:43PM (#17009050)

Alternatively, when you go to an escape room, try to figure out how the puzzles were implemented. I am guessing lots of custom Arduino. For example, one puzzle required entering a specific price into a cash register to get the cash register drawer to open. How would that be done?

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Re:Unlocking the Business Secrets of Escape Rooms by lastofus on Sunday May 06, 2018 @09:04PM (#17009678)

You are correct that a lot of rooms are using off the shelf Arduinos, often with buttons/reed switches/RFID tags for inputs, hooked up to a relay + maglock for the output.

Some of the higher end rooms will pay a little extra for PLCs such as the ones from AutomationDirect.

Another somewhat common controller are the BooBox controllers which come from the haunt industry. A lot of haunters got into escape rooms as a way to supplement income the rest of the year.

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Re:Unlocking the Business Secrets of Escape Rooms by faitswulff on Sunday May 06, 2018 @07:50PM (#17009348)

Hah! I did one that involved that puzzle just a few hours ago. Was it in Chicago?

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