Remote Games
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This probably does deserve a thread but it's late and I can't be bothered
Quick summary: players can remotely control real robots in scale model worlds, and they actually have a functioning prototype. Also the bots run Linux for some reason.
[this is pretty cool! - bz]
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Neat. The problem is that it won't scale well, so it's going to be expensive, but it's a fun idea.
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They were probably just too lazy to develop the physics themselves.
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@kazitor said in Remote Games:
Also the bots run Linux for some reason.
What other OS did you think they were gonna use?
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@stillwater TempleOS.
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@kazitor said in Remote Games:
[this is pretty cool! - bz]
ITT: a mod is less lazy than a normal user
Thanks for moving, I just supposed someone could make their own topic and quote the relevant bit if they were interested.
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@stillwater said in Remote Games:
@kazitor said in Remote Games:
Also the bots run Linux for some reason.
What other OS did you think they were gonna use?
Not use an OS at all? That seems much more complicated than what they need; an embedded system is what I would expect.
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@kazitor said in Remote Games:
@stillwater said in Remote Games:
@kazitor said in Remote Games:
Also the bots run Linux for some reason.
What other OS did you think they were gonna use?
Not use an OS at all? That seems much more complicated than what they need; an embedded system is what I would expect.
It could still be embeddded, RedHawk is a popular real-time Linux OS. But I'd suspect they looked at just how much is involved doing bare-metal with both video cameras and WiFi and, very sensibly, nope'd out of that. FPGA work is seriously expensive compared to just slapping a COTS single-board x86 computer in there and grabbing a Linux dev.
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@kazitor said in Remote Games:
@stillwater said in Remote Games:
@kazitor said in Remote Games:
Also the bots run Linux for some reason.
What other OS did you think they were gonna use?
Not use an OS at all? That seems much more complicated than what they need; an embedded system is what I would expect.
Complicated in what sense? You can build it with regular parts, there are plenty of cheap components that will run it, most of your devices already have drivers, and you don't need any particularly complex build set up to write and deploy the code.
An embedded system may be marginally cheaper to build, but everything else becomes more complicated.
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@kazitor said in Remote Games:
@kazitor said in Remote Games:
[this is pretty cool! - bz]
ITT: a mod is less lazy than a normal user
Thanks for moving, I just supposed someone could make their own topic and quote the relevant bit if they were interested.It was a lot easier to use the "fork topic" widget and use your already written post than to track down the "New Post" button, etc, etc, etc.
