That is just insanely freaking cool! The very first program I ever wrote was a rewrite of Turbo-Gomoku back in the day when TurboPascal was the hot dev language, and I've had a love affair with GoMoku ever since, rewriting the game with every new programming language I learn.
This was a very cool video, and what a neat project!
Nope. :-) If you tried to cheat by placing two marks at once, the robot would recognize only the closest mark, and then continue to play according to the rules. It may pick up the second mark in a later move, or it may try to place a mark on it itself.
Good job on the robot! I'm interested in how or where you obtained the software that decides where to make a mark next? You've said it was a group of three programmers, so you wrote it yourselves? I dabble in programming myself and if you wrote it then it's something I can appreciate fully as being very hard to do.
This video is generated from series of single photo shots and merged together. I used to make such "cartoons" myself. The boy moves the device by tiny bit each time and takes one snapshot. There are no engines behind that "robot", and most certainly there is no computer behind it. The boy just plays for both sides.
Thanks, that was funny. Do you realize how much work it would have taken to do this as a stop-motion video? It was much, much more interesting and took much, much less effort to do this for real.
BTW, the "boy" was three programmers in their mid-twenties. We did this as a university project.
Well, if it was really a robot then of course it was an excellent job! And I agree that it is certainly more exciting to build an actual robot rather than making an animation. But I disagree about your claim of having less efforts that way. Such animation can be done in 3 hours. I don't think you can build such robot and program it faster than that.
One word, WOW.
TestMyVidsOut 1 year ago
Kitűnő munka, csak gratulálni tudok nektek :).
Én is készítettem már ötödölő játékot, de nem is gondoltam arra hogy roboton valósítsam meg.
avvoltoio31 2 years ago
just WOUAH !! 5/5
iehann 2 years ago
just WOUAH !!! 5/5
iehann 2 years ago
You got owned by your own creation xD
aq1sw2de3fr 3 years ago
That is just insanely freaking cool! The very first program I ever wrote was a rewrite of Turbo-Gomoku back in the day when TurboPascal was the hot dev language, and I've had a love affair with GoMoku ever since, rewriting the game with every new programming language I learn.
This was a very cool video, and what a neat project!
TakuanDaikon 4 years ago
One question. What if you cheated? would it cheat back? :D
RedBlips 4 years ago
Nope. :-) If you tried to cheat by placing two marks at once, the robot would recognize only the closest mark, and then continue to play according to the rules. It may pick up the second mark in a later move, or it may try to place a mark on it itself.
fnord43 4 years ago
Nice, I was just wondering. Seemed like a good idea at the time
RedBlips 4 years ago
The problem is that if you made it check every square it would go even slower.
Nice robot, fnord43.
boonce88 4 years ago
sweet
legomindstormbuilder 4 years ago
pwnt.
Good job on the robot! I'm interested in how or where you obtained the software that decides where to make a mark next? You've said it was a group of three programmers, so you wrote it yourselves? I dabble in programming myself and if you wrote it then it's something I can appreciate fully as being very hard to do.
rainkimahri 4 years ago
genius. And that couldn't be stop-motion it would took like monhs it is indeed much faster to just build and program a minstorms machine.
foxtrotHQ 4 years ago
This video is generated from series of single photo shots and merged together. I used to make such "cartoons" myself. The boy moves the device by tiny bit each time and takes one snapshot. There are no engines behind that "robot", and most certainly there is no computer behind it. The boy just plays for both sides.
andome2 4 years ago
Thanks, that was funny. Do you realize how much work it would have taken to do this as a stop-motion video? It was much, much more interesting and took much, much less effort to do this for real.
BTW, the "boy" was three programmers in their mid-twenties. We did this as a university project.
fnord43 4 years ago
Well, if it was really a robot then of course it was an excellent job! And I agree that it is certainly more exciting to build an actual robot rather than making an animation. But I disagree about your claim of having less efforts that way. Such animation can be done in 3 hours. I don't think you can build such robot and program it faster than that.
But once again, well done!
andome2 4 years ago
Epic fail, no, First Class fail.
Welcome to a world where your legos play with you, its called mindstorms, and has been around for the last 8 years ish.
MastaSquidge 4 years ago
Why do you think that?
Is it because you can not build one yourself, so you think it is impossible to bulid?
Eavind 4 years ago
what mindstorms did you use?
cdkttm 4 years ago
It was the original version, with the yellow RCX controller. We used BrickOS and GCC for a full C programming environment.
fnord43 4 years ago
How long did the game last?
theinsekt 4 years ago
About 20 to 30 minutes. The video is sped up to be about four to six times faster.
fnord43 4 years ago
The two concepts are not mutually exclusive.
fnord43 4 years ago
omg! =D
hewtoi 4 years ago
You must be a programming genius.
plaguex1 5 years ago
to tak jak skreślanie liczb w totka ;)
ermijo 5 years ago
Lego Mindstorms Gomoku
peretz36 5 years ago
u suk zt gokumo
KillingRobotManiacs 5 years ago