MiniCasino

A school project from vocational training (learning field 7), built together with Nikita Lupalo. You tap a card on the reader, pick black, red or green and watch three lights spin. The hardware is only the stage; most of the work is in the software around it.

What the software does

• Accounts per card: new cards start with 100 points, up to 31 accounts live in the EEPROM, each stored twice and protected by a checksum (CRC).
• Game rules as their own tested part: stake, odds and payouts are checked at compile time.
• An admin panel in Python that runs in the browser: view and edit balances, ban cards or turn one into an admin card.
• A simulation, so you can play and test without any hardware.
• A 3D model of the case in the browser that plays the game with the real game logic and has the admin panel built in.

What I took away

How to separate logic so it can be tested without a device, and how much a good admin tool matters, even when the game itself is small.