I like to think about how games work, in the case of Jenga, it is just physics!
But don’t you wish you could peel back reality and see what is happening with the physics from the inside? Well now you can, with the help of a Wii Balance Board.
I’m going to maintain all instructions on how to setup all the technical details on my wiki: http://wiki.xkyle.com/WiiJenga
Once you have it setup, you can see where the real center of balance is of your game, and you can tell how close it is to toppling over.
In reality, the balance board isn’t quite sensitive enough to very accurately detect the center of balance of the Jenga blocks, or detect how many Jenga blocks there are, but it is fun to watch:
While sitting watching TV I yearned for a more stream-of-consciousness experience. Youtube was the answer.
However, Youtube requires too much interaction. I wanted to vege out and let it just feed me the stream of random images and sound. Selecting purely random youtube videos sounded like a bad idea though…
I decided to do a twitter search for anything with a youtube link, and then let a script just enqueue them into totem, ad-infinitum. Here is my abomination:
#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ];
do
for EACHVIDEO in `wget -O - -q "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=youtube.com" | grep http://www.youtube.com | grep "<content" | sed 's/quot;/\n/g' | grep "http://www.youtube.com" | cut -f 1 -d "&" `
do
totem --enqueue `youtube-dl -g -b "$EACHVIDEO" ` &
sleep 2s
done
sleep 30s
done
You need a recent version of the youtube-dl script, located here. Put it in your path as appropriate. Press N for next! Next! Next!
I have a first generation Asus Eeepc, but the power plug is failing. All plugs do this eventually. Lots of tiny wires, bending back and forth all the time… It just happens.
So should I throw it away and buy a new one? No! It can be easily fixed. Here is what you need:
Soldering Iron + Solder
Flux helps if you have it (If you have not soldered with flux, you are missing out big time)
