One of the groups on campus hosted a game show-type event and needed buzzers. We briefly looked into making iClickers work as buzzers without success, but thought “There must be an app for that!” Indeed, there are apps for that. My student found I Buzzed First, but it turns out it’s not available on the US app stores.
Here’s a link to Android apps (and other buzzers) and here are the a few we found for iOS (we have iPads we could use for this):
Sync Buzzer for Android worked great on my home network, but didn’t work on campus with our network, though it did work with my phone as a wireless hotspot. It allows several people to use an Android phone as a buzzer and can keep a tally of how many correct answers a player or team got.
We finally settled on the Wireless Eggspert (Amazon, $54.29), which is pretty cool. You can have it randomly choose one of six contestants to answer, or they can be used as buzzers, where the first person to buzz in has to answer the question in 5-30 seconds (timed on the Eggspert).
If you just need a gameshow soundboard, there’s Ultimate Buzzer on the Apple App store; this one on the Play store is more like a game multi-tool.
It looks like there’s one for android and operated through Chrome on the Chrome store.
