Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Wearable Robot allows you to carry your friends on your back

Submitted by admin on February 10, 2010 – 4:09 amNo Comment

413466e5c0335311.jpg1 Wearable Robot allows you to carry your friends on your back

Developed by researchers at Japan’s Tsumaki Telerobotics Laboratory at Yamagata University, the Wearable Robot offers us a new tool that may change the lives of the elderly and disabled around the world. The set-up is essentially a telepresence mechanism that attaches a robotic camera to a mobile person.

A person sitting at a stationary location can then wirelessly control the robot’s movement and view the current landscape position of the robot and the wearer. You can see video of the wearable robot in action here.

Via Technabob

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