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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Cordless motion-activated light goes anywhere, scares crooks

Submitted by admin on April 8, 2010 – 11:08 pmNo Comment

44a567a3ae36867.jpg Cordless motion activated light goes anywhere, scares crooks

That dark front door of yours is so gloomy at night, you never know what’s going to jump out and grab you. Here’s an easy way to fix that: Let there be light. This six-inch fixture is easy to place just about anywhere, and has a rotating head that lets you point its light wherever you need it. Just use the included mounting plate to attach it, and make sure it’s secure because it’s so cool, those bad guys might want to pluck it off the wall and take it with them.

When it detects motion, its light stays on for 30 seconds, so unless this thing turns itself on at the drop of a rustling leaf, it might be able to curse the darkness for years. It shows yet another benefit of highly efficient LEDs, using so little power they can provide about 150 hours of illumination on four C batteries. Try that with an incandescent bulb.

Via Hammacher Schlemmer

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