Lucas continues to ask for a treehouse, which of course our townhouse does not afford. But there are some great ideas here that could be applied to other projects. Very cool.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Ravenna Ultra Low Altitude Vehicle
This is pretty sweet. A treehouse rocketship. One of the most interesting bits here is the use of a matrix of seven-segment LED displays to create a larger display...
Lucas continues to ask for a treehouse, which of course our townhouse does not afford. But there are some great ideas here that could be applied to other projects. Very cool.
Lucas continues to ask for a treehouse, which of course our townhouse does not afford. But there are some great ideas here that could be applied to other projects. Very cool.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Lucas, Bob, Logo, EK-LM3S1968
Lucas told me last week that he wanted to make a Bob game. He's referring to a game that Steve Hales created for the Sidekick many moons back, and that both kids still love playing. Lucas has some ideas about new levels, and he demanded that I should show him what to do to make this game.
I love his interest, I just wish it was that easy.
After a few days of thinking about how exactly I was going to help bring my 7 year old's dream to life, I decided that he would probably be happy learning how to "walk" first, and I need not get all stressed out about helping him "run"... at least not yet.
This past weekend, I set him up on my computer with ACSLogo. Of course he was thrilled, and had lots of fun making the turtle move around the screen, and say funny things. He has repeatedly asked to play some more, which is awesome.
This got me thinking about options for Lucas' game... I have a bag of old Sidekicks, so I looked into downloading the hiptop SDK, but that didn't go so well. I have an iPad, but don't yet have the right version of Mac OS X to develop for it. I have a Windows Phone, but that's a development device for work. I have various other electronic gadgets, but nothing that could really pass as a game platform...
Then I remembered I have an EK-LM3S1968 evaluation kit from Luminary Micro (now TI). It has a 128x96 OLED screen on it, a few buttons (including 4 in the shape of a d-pad!), and a speaker. And it comes with a built-in maze game in the quickstart application, so there is example code to work from.
Now I'm working on a dinky little vertical scroller/shooter. Lucas hasn't mentioned his Bob game since I sat him in front of ACSLogo, but now my interest is piqued. :-)
I love his interest, I just wish it was that easy.
After a few days of thinking about how exactly I was going to help bring my 7 year old's dream to life, I decided that he would probably be happy learning how to "walk" first, and I need not get all stressed out about helping him "run"... at least not yet.
This past weekend, I set him up on my computer with ACSLogo. Of course he was thrilled, and had lots of fun making the turtle move around the screen, and say funny things. He has repeatedly asked to play some more, which is awesome.
This got me thinking about options for Lucas' game... I have a bag of old Sidekicks, so I looked into downloading the hiptop SDK, but that didn't go so well. I have an iPad, but don't yet have the right version of Mac OS X to develop for it. I have a Windows Phone, but that's a development device for work. I have various other electronic gadgets, but nothing that could really pass as a game platform...
Then I remembered I have an EK-LM3S1968 evaluation kit from Luminary Micro (now TI). It has a 128x96 OLED screen on it, a few buttons (including 4 in the shape of a d-pad!), and a speaker. And it comes with a built-in maze game in the quickstart application, so there is example code to work from.
Now I'm working on a dinky little vertical scroller/shooter. Lucas hasn't mentioned his Bob game since I sat him in front of ACSLogo, but now my interest is piqued. :-)
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