Q-Snakers

[quantumjim]

Abstract

The PewPew is a games console, made up of 6 buttons, a 64 LED screen and a microcontroller. It is a great basis for Python tutorials, and will be used at several events this year for Qiskit tutorials. You can make games to be featured as part of this, and tutorials on how to make the games that could be included in the Qiskit textbook.

Description

Games for the PewPew are made using Python. A typical game is implemented in ~100 lines of code. A light version of Qiskit has been made to run on it, allowing up to two qubits. Introductory workshops already exist. But there are not yet any tutorials based on how to make actual games.

Alternative direction: The restrictions the PewPew provides make it a nice, simple sandbox for experimenting with programming. But if these seem too restrictive, and you want a few more pixels and/or colours, you could instead make a game for an extended PewPew emulator.

Members

• Lisa Tse
• Eduardo Gonzalez
• Harold Co
• Jona Buehler
• Jan Li
• IBM Coach: @quantumjim (James Wootton, IBM Research - Zurich)

Deliverable

A game (or games) for the PewPew, with Jupyter based tutorials to teach people how it was made and the quantum programming behind it.

GitHub repo

https://github.com/geduardo/Hackathon-Quantum-Snake

[deshipu]

By the way, there is a CircuitPython kernel for the Jupyter Notebook: https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-with-jupyter-notebooks

[deshipu]

I can help coaching this, if possible?

[quantumjim]

If anyone else wants to do a 1 min pitch for this, let me know.

[geduardo]

I can do the pitch yeah