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Augmented Tanks is a game I've been working on for a while now...and am still working on.
Building off of my solar powered iPhone controlled Arduino tank, I've added an infrared LED to my robot so that it can be tracked and also modified the tank's control system so that it now uses two XY grids and a fire button.
The first XY grid now controls the tanks direction and the second controls the tanks aim. There is also a large button spanning the entire top part of the interface which fires the weapon.
Building off of my solar powered iPhone controlled Arduino tank, I've added an infrared LED to my robot so that it can be tracked and also modified the tank's control system so that it now uses two XY grids and a fire button.
The first XY grid now controls the tanks direction and the second controls the tanks aim. There is also a large button spanning the entire top part of the interface which fires the weapon.
iPhone interface for tank control
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The goal of the game is simple, shoot tanks on the opposite team until your team has reached a total of 10 kills. Each time a member of your team is killed you get -1 point.
There are ammo pickups and each tank starts out with a shield that can take 10 hits before the tank is dead.
Right now every bullet fired is tracked with a firedfromID and teamID so that each bullet knows to go through team mates and only damage the opposite team. Also it help to keep track of kills so that at the end of the game statistics can be shown.
There are ammo pickups and each tank starts out with a shield that can take 10 hits before the tank is dead.
Right now every bullet fired is tracked with a firedfromID and teamID so that each bullet knows to go through team mates and only damage the opposite team. Also it help to keep track of kills so that at the end of the game statistics can be shown.
Currently in Progress:
Of course fun part of this is building the actual tanks/robots and controller. I'm still working out the details of what the tanks will be made out of, early tests were simply using Ardubots driven by SparkFun customers during our little meetup/class. How the controller communicated to the server running Processing is pretty important in order to be able to keep all the signals real-time and so that when a bot is killed it's IR led will be turned off for a few seconds and controls disabled.
The students were using xBee modules with unique channels to control each robot via serial commands send by their laptops, but that may be changing...or getting a bit more complicated since they all need to connect to the server via one xbee.
Of course fun part of this is building the actual tanks/robots and controller. I'm still working out the details of what the tanks will be made out of, early tests were simply using Ardubots driven by SparkFun customers during our little meetup/class. How the controller communicated to the server running Processing is pretty important in order to be able to keep all the signals real-time and so that when a bot is killed it's IR led will be turned off for a few seconds and controls disabled.
The students were using xBee modules with unique channels to control each robot via serial commands send by their laptops, but that may be changing...or getting a bit more complicated since they all need to connect to the server via one xbee.
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