Zerohm is an iPhone game designed to help science and engineering students learn the resistor color band codes, a fundamental identification system in the field of electronics.
The game was originally developed with XCode 3.1 for iPhone 3.1.
The game includes a Tutorial, Practice Mode and two game levels: Sort Resistors and Analyze Circuit.
The Tutorial explains the theory behind resistor color codes and the requirements of the game in the various levels.
The Practice Mode includes two options:
- To guess the color codes given the resistance value
- To guess the resistance value given the color codes.
In the Sort Resistors level, players have to sort the resistors as quickly as possible as they come out of the assembly line. The resistors will have to be placed into boxes based on the resistance and/or tolerance values. Failure to sort 3 resistors will result in defeat.
In the Analyze Circuit level, players have to correctly identify broken resistors using two-fingers either side of a resistor, much like a multimeter. Once identified, players will be taken to a second screen in which they will have to create the correct resistor by placing the color bands in the correct positions.
