Monthly Archives: July, 2009
Caps
Caps is a Drinking game
What you will need to play
2 or more players (4+ recommend )
A glass beer bottle
A bunch of bottle caps 5 or 6 for each person
Set up
Everyone sits around in a circle spread out a bit (arms length away from each other) with 5 or 6 bottle caps to start. Place one [...]
links for 2009-07-22
Visualizing Sensor Data with Arduino and Processing | uC Hobby
Visualizing Sensor Data With the Arduino using Processing and an Infrared Distance Sensor. This article was submitted by Cory Barton as part of the uCHobby giveaway program. Cory shows us how to combine the Arduino, sensors, and the Processing environment to visualize real world sensor measurements.
(tags: [...]
links for 2009-07-21
Exploring the C++ Unit Testing Framework Jungle
A good review of different unit testing framworks
(tags: programming code c++ reviews framework testing CPP unittest unit_test tdd test)
Amazon.com: Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide (Coad Series): David Astels: Books
This book teaches programmers how to make Test Driven Development (TDD) work in their organization. TDD is unique because it forces [...]
Boxing
Boxing is a Dice Drinking game
What you need to play
2 dice
2 or more players
How to play the game
Split up in to two teams.
Each team rolls one dice the team with the lowest roll has to drink, if you both get the same roll then you re roll.
If the loser doesn’t take the shot of beer [...]
links for 2009-07-14
Dailymotion – The Golden Filter – Hide Me – Musica
Destructive hipster love – “Hide me” by the Golden Filter – via Long
(tags: video kissing movies)
Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing
After resolving my user error with the Maxsonar EZ1 with the help of Bob Gross I moved on to visulizing the data captured. Captuing the output of from the Arduino with Hyper ternimal as a CSV file and importing it in to Excel worked, but I was looking for something more advanced. After a little [...]
Boss Dice
Boss Dice is also known as Bull Dice, Beetle Dice and is said to be one of the most popular dice game in San Francisco. It’s based on Poker dice hands with some omissions.
What you need to play
10 dice, 5 dice for each player
Two player.
Two dice cups.
The object of the game
To create the highest poker [...]
links for 2009-07-08
arduino meets processing – PUSHBUTTON
(tags: programming diy art Arduino processing)
ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
I found a MAX Sonar EZ1 sensor at my local electronics store and decided to try it out. The selling features of this sensor for me was
Cheap (< $20), and immediately available, (impulse buy)
Analog and serial pins, with documentation, oh [...]
links for 2009-07-06
The Astounding World of the Future
(tags: future)
Booray
Booray (also spelled Bourré)
Booray combines features of both Bridge and Poker and is thus a good link between these two frequently played games.
This game is also related to an old card game called Écarté. Booray is popular in Louisiana and with French-speaking Canadians.
What you need to play
The standard 52-card pack is used.
Two or three people, [...]
Arduino Robots
I bought a Arduino board for a green house project I was planning to do sometime last year. To regulate the temperature, turn on and off lights and fans, data logging, ect. A friend ended up giving me some deadacated hardware making the Arduino project a lot of extra work for very little gain and [...]
links for 2009-07-03
PvPGN – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PvPGN (Player vs Player Gaming Network) is a free and open source software project offering emulation of various gaming network servers. It is published under the GPL and based upon bnetd. PvPGN was a recommended project of the month in the August 2005 issue of Linux+ magazine.
It currently supports most [...]
