Fully explanations and Tutorials coming soon on my web (Work in progress) ;) ---------------------------------------------------- Hydraulics -Platforms attempt to counteract the movement of the balls to take them to a relaxed state and prevent them from falling. -The motion of the platforms is fully automatic and is dependent on the speed of the balls and their mass and size. -The tool is completely procedural, customizable and works in real time. -Also the platforms motion can be driven by a map. SecondLife -Objects are always reconstructed respecting the fragments created at the time of destruction. -It doesnt matter the angle with they fall to the ground, the objects are always reconstructed standing up. -The tool always works regardless of the shape of the object and can operate several different shapes at the same time. -The objects are not pre fragmented, they break automatically when they hit the ground or are impacted with a bullet. -You can control everything about the physics, the breaking/fragments of the objects and the rebuild. WallWalkers -The movement of the characters is given by the physics. -The motion of them is totally procedural and without keyframes -You can control the amount of characters, their falling speed and the time they remain stuck to the wall among other things. Space Invaders -The character tries to dodge the bombs being dropped by the invaders, at the same time the character tries to destroy them before they reach the ground. -Defenses are destroyed as they are struck. -The AI of the character can be adjusted to be more or less effective. -The number of ships can be customized and the fire cadence increased or decreased. Robots -The design of the robots is fully customizable. You can ajust the height, the number of legs, their shape among other thinks. -Also their motion can be customizable. Their speed, the step distance -They Autoajust to the ground no matter the shape it has. -The robots move towards a helper point (that can be moving) and they avoid all the obstacles in their way and all the other robots so they never get intersected. Asteroids -The ship destroys the asteroids that are the greatest threat to her life while is trying dodging the rest. -Each time an asteroid is destroyed it is divided into two smaller asteroids. -The number of asteroids and her size, the responsiveness of the ship and the aggressiveness can be personalized. -if something reaches the edge of the map, it reappears on the opposite edge. -In this example the number of asteroids is very high to show the effectiveness of the ship. MarioBox -The character tries to pick the coins he found while trying to dodge/kill the enemies or jump the ravines. -Stage is automatically generated following given rules that can be customized. -You can also customize the size/difficulty of the stage and the number/position of enemys/falls. PlanesWars -The motion of the aircraft is designed to mimic reality as closely as possible. -If a plane turns right, leans to the right and so on. -The amount of tilt depends on the speed of the plane and the position and distance of the target point. -Each plane searches and tries to destroy the closest objective, but try to avoid it when it is very close. -On the other hand we have the flak cannons that seek and try destroy the nearest planes. MazeExplorer -The TP system can create the maze for you or you can import or create a path that will be the maze. -Any maze can be solved by the AI, you only have to tell the system a starting point and the exit with two helper points.

• published: 08 Jul 2014
• views: 1937

I finally got around to making a quick demonstration of my NES-chuck. Code for the NES-chuck can be found here: https://github.com/skullspace/neschuck. My website can be found here: http://blog.benbergman.ca/?p=1544 (that links to the post for this video). The future event I mention is ArtCadia (http://www.culturedays.ca/en/2011-activities/view/4e271761-02ac-49c7-b96d-2ba04c4a89be), which is part of Nuit Blanche. I'm not yet sure if I (or the NES-chuck) can attend, but I will keep this updated. The following is a draft of my script for the video: Hi everyone! I'm here to demonstrate this project that I made recently that I call the NES-chuck. As you can see here, I have a Wii nunchuck, but the cable has been replaced with one from the original NES controller so that it can be directly connected to the Nintendo. So with this, I am now able to play classic Nintendo games with the Wii nunchuck. I came up with this idea a few months ago while chatting with some fellow hackers from my local hackerspace. We were thinking of project ideas and thought it would be great to play classic video games with a modern controller. The Wii nunchuck to NES conversion seemed good to me as it would be useful for one-handed gamers, people who want to eat a snack while gaming, or people wanting to play cooperative games by themselves. I then took it upon myself to make the NES-chuck at our next hackathon. We were later asked to help out with an event at the Winnipeg Art Gallery celebrating video game culture. The NES-chuck was setup for all the visitors to use and stood up to the use of hundreds of guests. So here's a quick demonstration of how it works. I can move the joystick to make Mario walk around, I can press the top button to make Mario jump, and I can press the lower button to make him run or, if he has the fire flower powerup, shoot fireballs. Those of you really familiar with the NES controller will remember that it also has start and select buttons, but I have run out of buttons on the nunchuck. To compensate for this, I have used the accelerometer in the nuncheck to make the NES-chuck into a modal system. If you hold the controller in a normal playing position, the buttons function as A and B. However, if you hold the controller so that it is pointing upwards, the buttons will then act as Start and Select. In order to get all of this functionality, I have crammed an ATMEGA 328 microcontroller running the Arduino bootloader into the nunchuck. The ATMEGA then talks over I2C with the nunchuck to get all the state information about the nunchuck (the joystick, the buttons, and the accelerometer) and then uses that information as it emulates the shift register inside the original NES controller. In the future, there are a few changes that I would like to make to the NES-chuck. Besides getting a better NES that doesn't constantly hang, I am considering taking the analog values from the joystick and using it to pulse width modulate the NES arrow buttons. That would let the user make Mario run at varying speeds, much like he does in the modern games. This rapid button pressing might get annoying for menu navigation, so when in start/select mode, the joystick will act as it currently does. A second change I would like to make is to get rid of the Arduino bootloader. Since the NES-chuck is powered from the NES itself, the Arduino starts booting when the NES first turns on. Since the Arduino bootloader is slower to boot than the NES, things get a bit screwy, so I usually have to press the reset button on the NES so that it can get a fresh start with the NES-chuck already loaded up. Lastly, I am currently experiencing a bug where the Start button gets pressed seemingly at random. It seems to happen most often when I am pressing up and left on the joystick and while jumping. The shift sequence of the NES controller has UP and START directly next to each other, so I think it is just a timing problem, but I haven't been able to squash the bug yet. I did, however, manage to decrease the bug's frequency by lowering the sensitivity to the UP button. Another possible solution would be to use an actual shift register to more precisely emulate the NES controller. The downside to this is that there is a limited amount of space in the nunchuck to begin with and so it might be tough to cram it all in there. If you would like to get more information about the NES-chuck or you have some suggestions for the next version, feel free to leave a comment here or contact me through my website. You can also check out the code from our hackerspace's GitHub account. I'll post a link in this video's description. The code is pretty simple, but a little messy as it was written in an afternoon. Feel free to use it however you would like. Also, if you would like to see the NES-chuck in action, it is looking pretty likely that there will be another video game art exhibit in Winnipeg sometime this fall, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for that. I

• published: 17 Aug 2011
• views: 227

Fully explanations and Tutorials coming soon on my web (Work in progress) ;) ---------------------------------------------------- Hydraulics -Platforms attempt to counteract the movement of the balls to take them to a relaxed state and prevent them from falling. -The motion of the platforms is fully automatic and is dependent on the speed of the balls and their mass and size. -The tool is completely procedural, customizable and works in real time. -Also the platforms motion can be driven by a map. SecondLife -Objects are always reconstructed respecting the fragments created at the time of destruction. -It doesnt matter the angle with they fall to the ground, the objects are always reconstructed standing up. -The tool always works regardless of the shape of the object and can operate several different shapes at the same time. -The objects are not pre fragmented, they break automatically when they hit the ground or are impacted with a bullet. -You can control everything about the physics, the breaking/fragments of the objects and the rebuild. WallWalkers -The movement of the characters is given by the physics. -The motion of them is totally procedural and without keyframes -You can control the amount of characters, their falling speed and the time they remain stuck to the wall among other things. Space Invaders -The character tries to dodge the bombs being dropped by the invaders, at the same time the character tries to destroy them before they reach the ground. -Defenses are destroyed as they are struck. -The AI of the character can be adjusted to be more or less effective. -The number of ships can be customized and the fire cadence increased or decreased. Robots -The design of the robots is fully customizable. You can ajust the height, the number of legs, their shape among other thinks. -Also their motion can be customizable. Their speed, the step distance -They Autoajust to the ground no matter the shape it has. -The robots move towards a helper point (that can be moving) and they avoid all the obstacles in their way and all the other robots so they never get intersected. Asteroids -The ship destroys the asteroids that are the greatest threat to her life while is trying dodging the rest. -Each time an asteroid is destroyed it is divided into two smaller asteroids. -The number of asteroids and her size, the responsiveness of the ship and the aggressiveness can be personalized. -if something reaches the edge of the map, it reappears on the opposite edge. -In this example the number of asteroids is very high to show the effectiveness of the ship. MarioBox -The character tries to pick the coins he found while trying to dodge/kill the enemies or jump the ravines. -Stage is automatically generated following given rules that can be customized. -You can also customize the size/difficulty of the stage and the number/position of enemys/falls. PlanesWars -The motion of the aircraft is designed to mimic reality as closely as possible. -If a plane turns right, leans to the right and so on. -The amount of tilt depends on the speed of the plane and the position and distance of the target point. -Each plane searches and tries to destroy the closest objective, but try to avoid it when it is very close. -On the other hand we have the flak cannons that seek and try destroy the nearest planes. MazeExplorer -The TP system can create the maze for you or you can import or create a path that will be the maze. -Any maze can be solved by the AI, you only have to tell the system a starting point and the exit with two helper points.

• published: 08 Jul 2014
• views: 1937