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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MIT student turns his lamp into a living, robotic assistant

Submitted by admin on June 10, 2010 – 9:20 amNo Comment

e4bc57c60f407101.jpg1 MIT student turns his lamp into a living, robotic assistant

This is MIT student Natan Linder’s LuminAR robotic lamp, and it makes for a pretty awesome office companion. That’s because it’s able to beam information around your office from a pico projector and even recognize how you interact with the image, allowing you perform actions such as tapping and typing.

Using gestures, Linder can also command the lamp to perform simple tasks. Is the projection in the way? With a swipe of his hand, the lamp moves to the side. It uses a webcam to “see” what Linder’s doing, and that’s how it recognizes his other movements, too, such as tapping on a video to get it to play.

Want to see it in action? Check out the LuminAR in the video below.

LuminAR, via Engadget

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