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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]