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[WiP] Offroad Racer (Unity)
[WiP – Work in Progress] More details coming soon 🙂 What’s this game about? Offroad point-to-point racing game, with destructible elements of environment. Fine-tuned car physics, animated suspension parts, simulating anti-roll bar, traction dependent on surface type/ratio (i.e. mix of sand and grass), flexible waypoint system, caching of trees (impostors, enabling/disabling physics for better…
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Nintendo Switch – Unboxing
I started the weekend by trying to get the new Nintendo Switch. There’s been shortage, and also delays for those that have pre-ordered, but I tried my luck. First destination: nearest Target. When I arrived just before 8AM there were already people waiting in line, but once they opened the store we were informed that…
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Smart Game Board – Software and testing
Software Having everything assembled and tested (all the connections), I started with writing libraries for the LEDs, sensors and handling overall game board state. Then came the game logic (Checkers). Nothing really surprising, and if you’re feeling comfortable with C++ this should be a fairly straight forward step. I wanted to organize code efficiently, so…
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Hello world!
And finally it happened! 🙂 After few months of thinking, and thinking (and working on a number of other projects), and thinking about starting a blog to organize various results of my hobbies in a single place, here it is. I’m going to “backfill” it with posts having dates when each of the projects has…
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Midnight Club – Car Meet
Last Friday along with group of friends and a number of car enthusiasts in the area we had an impromptu car meet. A lot of interesting cars showed up – there was something for everyone to admire 🙂 It was also a great opportunity to try out a new gadget (DJI Osmo Mobile) and as…
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Walk in Park Video (Drone)
One of the Christmas gifts I’ve received from my Wife is a drone (DJI Phantom 3). After familiarizing myself with it and practicing a bit of flying, we went for a walk to one of many parks we’re lucky to have around. It was a breezy, but sunny day, and a lot of cute animals…
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Custom Design Wall Decor
Another idea of mine, for a gift for a loved one, who already has everything 😉 And putting our time and skills to create something customized, one of a kind, is a great way to show love and appreciation. This project started as a quick sketch, which I then drew in Inkscape (cut lines need to…
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Japanese Lamp
The idea for this project was born during our vacation in Hawaii. We went for a hike (Manoa Falls, Oahu) and at the end of course we checked out the gift shop 🙂 There were interesting designs of lamps on the display, and for some reason they got stuck in my mind. Wanting to make…
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Knock-Knock Switch
Few days ago, late in the night, as I was lying on a bed with night stand lamp turned on, I felt too lazy to get up and reach to turn the light off… If only there was an easier way to turn electronic devices on or off. Maybe by clapping? They say all brilliant…
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Smart Game Board – Electronics
Electronics In this post I’ll try to describe the main components: LEDs for indicating the game/board state and showing possible moves, Hall effect sensors for detecting if a piece is on the board at a given cell, Miscellaneous: power rail, connections to Arduino, etc. Parts list Arduino MEGA – Buy on Amazon We’ll be using…
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