This years workshop at HMKV

The Mini-Laptops acted as a useful solution.
We improved the concept – more concentration, more creativity.

Skywalker 1.0

by Thule

You are the bright dott on the left. The aim of the game is to avoid contact with other dotts while it goes faster and faster. You control your little dott with the up and down button (with your left hand). In the beginning you have got 5 lifes. Every contact with other dotts cost one life. But it is also possible to win a life by shooting on the brighter dotts.

You shoot by pressing the A button. ATTENTION! Even the bright dotts will cost you a life if you crash into them! The brighter you are the more lifes you have. If you start blinking slownly you have got 6 lifes. If you are blinking fast you have reached the maximum of 7 lifes. Any more shooting is just for fun, but you should concentrate on your movement now. In the end you get a feedback: the number of dotts and the frequenz of the tone show you which speedlevel you reached.

If you like to change the map or make it longer you simply have to change the upper part of the program. The part after “uint8_t frame[5][Laenge] PROGMEM ={“ is the map. Every 0 turns a light off, a 1 stands for a darker dott and a 15 is an bright aim which will give you a point if you shoot at it. ATTENTION! If you change the map you have to make shure that you have 5 rows and you have to count your collums and if neccesary change the value after „#define Laenge“ in the line above. It is also important that the last 7 collums are exactly like the first seven are.

Hope you enjoy it!

You can download the Arduino File hier.

SkyWalker 1.0 from olafval on Vimeo.

The Handbook is 70% finished

Still all energise goes to the hand book, there will be a beta version next week.

A Visual programming tool for Arduino

On the "Erfinder-Workshop" at the FH Potsdam Heidi Schelhowe presented "Eduwear", which comes with a visual programming interfaces for Arduino. The Open Source project enables you to switch from the diagram view to the usual code back and forth again.

http://www.dimeb.de/eduwear

Unfortunately the tool is not very developed so far, but it would be a very good solution for the future. You can down load the alpha version here.

Picocricket

>> LINK

If You Don't Want To Get Physical: SCRATCH Could Be A Good Choice!

Scratch: overview from andresmh on Vimeo.

Scratch is a flash based tool that makes it easy to create your own games, animations, and share your them in an on-line community.

Mignon "Game & Watch"

The first clock application for the Mignon Game Kit by Paul Metzger alias KKenny. "Serial Clock" phases the displays of a digital clock in a nice slow rhythm. Thanks KKenny! You can download the Code here.