Cube World series 2 & 3 is ready

November 12th, 2006

If you thought Tamagotchi were ludicrously compelling, wait until you feast your eyes upon the crazy characters that inhabit Cube World. And no, that’s not a new superstore that sells boxes; it’s an interactive place where pixellated stick people live, play and pester each other.

Have you ever seen a greater desktop toy than this ?

Stick them together and see them interact as you would never have expected.

Priced around $35 in a box of two.

Benjamin Sølberg Toys

Legacy Commodore 64 SID Tunes

November 10th, 2006

If you, like me, was or still is a big fan of the Commodore 64, then you might still remember alot of the music tunes while you were playing on the machine. If you wanna listen to them again there are ALOT of websites out there that only deals with this.

Here are som redirects:

The greatest collection on the planet earth for sure!

http://www.hvsc.c64.org/

Some chip tunes, some of them even uses samples (To be honst I like the old style better):

http://www.prg.dtu.dk/~theis/stil/html/text/VARIOUSSZSanden_Peter.htm

SidPlay2 - The music player that emulates the Commodore 64 music hardware (and more)

http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/ 

Enjoy!

Benjamin Sølberg Commodore 64, Retro

ComputeCyles, JINI & Grids in JAVA

November 9th, 2006

JavaPosse podcasts regarding JINI & GRID computing.

Listen to them at the car or on the move, it’s worth it!

PodCast part 1 :
http://www.javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=131159
 
PodCast part 2 :
http://www.javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=133510
 
PodCast part 3 :
http://www.javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=135906
 
ComputeCyles (”lightweight” java grid):
https://computecycles.dev.java.net/Welcome.html

Benjamin Sølberg Java

NXT/RCX line follow programs

November 9th, 2006

“Toeing the Line” - a very nice paper, by ninth grader Jonathan Gray, comparing several different line following strategies. Although written for the RCX, this paper provides an excellent example of performance testing and analysis, as well as presentation of results.

The above document can be used for inspiration when playing with LEGO Mindstorms NXT and doing a “Line Follower” robot.

Benjamin Sølberg Lego Mindstorms NXT

Lego Mindstorms NXT links

November 9th, 2006

I have just bought a Lego Mindstorms NXT robotic kit and it really rocks!

I have already been programming it in native LabView and

http://www-education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/robotc/

Here is some LEGO NXT Mindstorms links that I use every now and then:

The Nxt Step (blog) http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/

Lego Education http://www.legoeducation.info/nxt/

WIKI about Mindstorms http://www.nxt-mindstorms.com

Another cool NXT blog http://www.nxtasy.org/

All in all the kit is so cool and I expect to use it for many many hours.

Benjamin Sølberg Lego Mindstorms NXT