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I laughed pretty hard at this one. As a PC user, I do hate the obsessed security/firewall/whatever. Here you go:

Nooooo!!!

Last minute hiccup.. Well it's more a vomit than a hiccup. Three of our motors decided to die on us. Luckily we have a couple more to work on with.. but still.. this is way too depressing..

Brainstorming

As I started brainstorming about putting everything together, my day got pretty frustrating and I do need a drink right now!

At the moment we have a hat, a helmet and a remote. These three pieces have to be on the user and it takes time to get them on. So we're going to figure out something for that.

Also there is a possibility to put the breadboard in the helmet and have a relatively small remote, which I think will help us in user-testing.

horray friday

feel the helmet

As the haptics person for the helmet, it's going pretty good actually. We are having some problems with the code but they'll be ok (I hope). In this session, I added two more motors to the helmet, so in total we have 5 motors (yay). Two of them on the front, two of them at the back and the main motor on the top.
Also the wires are tagged from now on, because it's getting pretty annoying to figure out which is going where. YAY!

so we have four modes for the motors:
GAME START: Front motors. they will run during the game on a small pace
SHOOTING: Back motors and the main motor
SHIELD: Starting from the front all of them.
GAME OVER: ALL OF THEM!

Right now, GAME START and GAME OVER is working. The SHOOTING is OK, only the SHIELD needs some work. Also the accelerometer is not in good shape, but the screen is going pretty good!

I'm planning to sew the motors in the hat so we'd get rid of the catastrophic tapes. Well, let's see..

bbbooooooooooooooooooorrrrrredddd!!

things to do when you are bored:
http://www.beseechfanclub.com/bored/

Our cute little bear will have lungs and a cute little heartbeat :) The idea of the suicidal bear got quite hard in many ways, but especially because of the usage of touchsensors gets complicated, we decided to postpone the idea to another project

Pong Prototype

The Pong Prototype came out a lot easier than the helmet. All we have is a wood, two motors and a pack of reese's. The power of these two motors change depending on which side the "ball" hits.