http://www.playfurther.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:58:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, this past weekend was build time. Got a little work done on Saturday, and basically just got wet on Sunday ( see "Noreaster"). I plan to do some major work on this tonight with my friend from way back in the day (high school) who is now an artist' ... http://www.playfurther.com/?p=10 Wanted to post some rough sketches of the table being built. The game is called Airtime. Sort of a combination of air hockey, foosball, and billiards. The game table is octagonal, so there are no "dead spots" aka where the balls on the table will become stuck in the corners. ... http://www.playfurther.com/?p=7 Ending up scrapping all the Mac-based solutions, and found a refurbished DELL on their outlet site. Cost me ~$200, so it was a pretty great deal. Installed Fedora Core 6, Asterisk, Eclipse, and set up a CVS so I can work on code remotely. It's now sitting in a ... http://www.playfurther.com/?p=6 I've spent the last week or 2 fighting with what to use for my Asterisk server. Using the server at NYU has been decent, but problems arise quite often, and I have no real admin over the server itself. So I've been looking into grabbing a MacMini and installing Asterisk ... http://www.playfurther.com/?p=5 One of the projects I plan to build out relies on air being blown and sucked relating to voice data from the incoming phone stream. I've played around with a leaf blower, and although it's super powerful.. power == NOISE. If I can find a way to enclose the motor so ... http://www.playfurther.com/?p=4 So, this is where my thesis documentation resides. I'm looking into the phone as a controller for gaming and interaction. I want to utilize it's familiarity, and ubiquity to ease players into playing together. I have a ton o' stuff in my notebook that will be showing up here right ... http://www.playfurther.com/?p=3